The following letter was published in tonight’s Shropshire Star. Unfortunately, whilst editing it they took out “in England” from the end of the first line which makes the whole letter ambiguous.
Kind of PM to think of England
How kind of Gordon Brown, the MP for Kikcaldy and Cowdenbeath in Scotland, to find some loose change down the back of the sofa to pay for free prescriptions for cancer patients.
I remember when my own mother was recovering from cancer the last thing she needed was the worry of how to pay for prescriptions when she was unable to work.
However, when considering Mr Brown’s generosity, it should be remembered that in Wales nobody has paid for a prescription for nearly two years now.
And any of Gordon Brown’s constituents in Scotland suffering from long-term of permanent illnesses haven’t paid for prescriptions for some time. Already 92 per cent of prescriptions dispensed in Scotland are free of charge.
Stuart Parr
Telford
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Note also that GB said that these free prescriptions for those suffering from a long-term or chronic condition were to be paid for by savings made in the drugs budget. Which, by my book, means that because they’ve saved money by not paying for some of the drugs freely available in Scotland for conditions such as some cancers, those very same cancer patients in England will now get their prescriptions for inferior drugs free of charge!
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:16 am