Benn slams health cut

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N lose Maternity Units at Match and hire on. in Chesteric dised. the Ashgate annexe which had beds for 43 patients and the Ashgate maternity hospital, which had 22 beds have been lost. Another 43 beds have gone from Morton Hospital, near Clay Cross.

Now the first phase of the new Calow Hospital April 1, as promised. North Derbyshire district's More than any other democratic reform, it gave the rank and file the possibility of exercising a significant amount of control over the PLP, including removing right-wingers and placeseekers.

Used properly, the mechanism places at risk many more than those mentioned as being 'the men at risk" by the Sunday Times - Shore, Silkin and Kaufman.

Extreme They are extreme cases, and even if changes were made in the rules - either by making re-selection voluntary or by introducing an individual member ballot system — it is unlikely they would be saved.

if the right wing don't want to face wider risks from mandatory reselection this time round, they have to make changes at this year's Party conference.

The time-scale for initiating the re-selection process is between 18 and 36 months after of trade unions, including ones they can usually rely on. They have voted solidly against the proposals because their own influence on local CLPs is threatened by removing the General Committee as the decision making body.

There is also the additional problem of a division among supporters of 'One member one vote' proposals. All support it in the election for Jeader and Deputy Leader, but probably not even a majority accept it so far in the selection of Parliamentary candidates.

Swing To swing the NEC behind it, any right wing campaign would need the support of Kinnock, and it is unlikely whether at this stage he would be prepared to risk such a decisive confrontation with the CUPs, the great majority of whom voted for him. Tony Benn's return to Parliament, and with it the possibility of standing for TONY Benn, the Labour candidate for Chesterfield, speaking at a public meeting on February 22 at Holme Hall School in Chesterfield said:

"The main issues raised by the people of Chesterfield during this by-election are unemployment and the cuts in the National Health Service.

'Conservatives and Liberals, as well as Labour voters are now getting very angry indeed at the government's treatment of young people who are rotting on has stretched to 3,581 patients.

the dole with no prospect of work, and at the lengthening dole queues.

"They are also afraid that if more money is not put into the NHS it will be unable to carry on and meet the medical needs of the sick and the old.

'That is why Labour's commitment to take emerwon't be hospital gency actiol 1 to create jobs, and build up our public services, is attracting such support.

"'The next Labour government will provide the funds to pay for all this by redirecting the North Sea oil revenues to rebuild our industries and services, by stopping the export of capital, and by cancelling the Trident and other nuclear weapons which are all a complete waste of money.

'Britain is a very rich country and the poverty and misery of millions of pensioners, sick and disabled people, and of others on low pay or minimum benetits is quite unnecessary.

"This campaign is helping to boost the confidence of people in this town that we could have a fairer and better society if we really worked for it."