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Joy Morrissey's contemptable views on 'Our NHS'

Just read the Conservative candidates views which were taken from her blog last year on the NHS. This is something particularly pertinent to those of us who do and have relied on Ealing Hospital.   Among other things she seems to take issue with people referring to it as 'Our NHS'. This to me demonstrates a lack of understanding of a service which is and has always been paid for by the public to serve the public. Would she prefer a private health care service such as they have in the United States? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-candidate-mocked-hysterical-labours-10562985

David White ● 3073d11 Comments

I never read Joy's blog either David but I did work in private health care services in the USA and assure you services there are better. I do know that since 2013 it has been the Labour Party here that is legally responsible for health services and that they have repeatedly fraudulently manipulated public consultations to make money for themselves.Last Thursday I was referred by Crown Street surgery to a company currently trading as ICS Health and Wellbeing which deliberately excludes British patients. Phone them on 08000439806 and see if you can answer their questions. They don't return calls or answer emails but then their contract is with Labour crooks who run Ealing Council. Doctors (people with medical degrees as opposed to "Dr Huq's sociology) do not have any say in who gets these health care contracts just professionals like Stephen Day, director of adult services, and his Labour Party pals.Clearly it is their NHS and Labour make sure they and their pals make money no matter the suffering that causes

Martin Cain ● 3071d

There's plenty of evidence still to show that Glenda Jackson was a very good as well as a very successful actress. There doesn't seem to be much evidence however to show that Morrissey was any good as an actress.

Susan Rowe ● 3071d

All very well taking a pop at the candidate because she was an actress and yes, is a rather inexperienced politician.But there has been another actress who became a very good MP.  Glenda Jackson.And another Actor who became a US president and despite the worldwide derision, brokered the end of the cold war.But with all parties in a bit of a mess with poor manifestos, massive disruption severely limiting the debate and presentation of such plans, it must be a nightmare for any new prospective candidate and not too great for the established ones.The issues have simply been secondary.Roll on a "None of the above" box on Ballot papers

Mark Kehoe ● 3072d

The NHS is saturated with non paying "patients" from all 4 corners of the globe ( including our own contributors)

Peter Yale ● 3072d

See:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-candidates-career-actress-saw-10563921The Mirror article reads (and there's a link to a video clip):Tory candidate's acting career saw her ride a man like a pantomime horse in a comedy 'bonk fest'Before she was Conservative candidate in Ealing and Acton, Joy Morrissey had a short career on the silver screenByOliver MilneTory candidate rode a man like a horse in smutty filmA Tory candidate who boasted of being a clergyman's daughter starred in a film which saw her ride a man like a pantomime horse - while he wore a cowboy hat.Joy Morrissey is the Conservative candidate in ultra marginal seat of Ealing and Acton.But before she dreamed of sitting on the leather benches in the House of Commons, the parliamentary hopeful worked a as a small-time actress.Her biggest role was as the co-star in the low budget comedy 'bonk fest' Geek Mythology.A mix between American Pie and a Carry On film, Geek Mythology focuses on a man's varied attempts to have sex.Released in 2008, it is subtitled 'It is hard to keep it in his pants'.[Photograph with caption here:Joy Morrissey is standing in Ealing Central and Acton (Photo: Evening Standard/eyevine)Tory says she is "pleased we have food banks" - then threatens to call police on hustings audience]Appearing under the name Joy Boden, Mrs Morrissey starred as Renee - the love interest who becomes the object of the male lead’s mystical sexual powers.Last week, the 36-year-old Mrs Morrisey told London’s Evening Standard her father is a clergyman in Ohio, prompting the paper to brand her the “other Vicars daughter” in reference to Theresa May’s childhood.But in 2008, American-born Mrs Morrisey's career was far from the world of British politics.Co-starring in the sexually charged comedy, Mrs Morrisey appears in a basque and rides a man wearing a cowboy hat.Conservative high command is throwing everything at Mrs Morrissey’s campaign to unseat Labour incumbent Rupa Huq.

John Alan Peters ● 3072d

She'll be off trying to re-invent herself somewhere else sooner rather than later. She's reading a script as actresses do and the script is written by someone else. I would rather have Nigel Sumner or even Phil Taylor as a Conservative candidate in Ealing Central and Acton; at least they are Conservatives: they walk like a duck and they talk like a duck so they are ducks. Joy-of-many-names acts like a duck, but that comes from stage school at Ohio State University. I prefer some integrity in a candidate, even if I disagree with the views and the politics of the party.

John Alan Peters ● 3072d

But John Alan Peters you have to admit having a Hollywood actress standing in Ealing and Acton is very glamorous? And she actually visited Acton!

Libby Kemp ● 3072d

Well said Libby Kemp. As she came under pressure at the Acton Central and Ealing hustings in Acton centre church she extolled in her defence her reasons for coming over to Europe from America as being to study the European model of social medicine in particular the Swedish healthcare model for example, and some kind of backhand indication about the UK. her Masters from LSE (in the name of Joy Damschroder in 2009/2010) was in European Social Policy (not economics or anything numerate) and I would very much like to see the results of her studies in the Europe social medicine model that should be embodied in her dissertation (assuming that she studied social medicine in Europe and actually did what she said and actually wrote it up). As for those people on the Forum who rubbish my statement about the six seven or eight month waiting lists, well it comes to us all and unless you have top notch privare medical insurance that will cover you into your seventies, eighties, and nineties and that you can afford the premiums as they escalate as you age I expect to see you moaning on Ealing Today Forum in years to come about how long you are being made to wait.Her answers were evasive and acted (not surprising for an actress) and she never said that she supported the European approach to medicine, only that she had studied it. Likewise, she never said that she was a Democrat, or denied that she had ever been a member of the Republican Party in the USA, certainly for many years she had strong ties to the Republican Party - she was merely "insulted" and had signed a petition to stop Trump coming here, not the same!She described herself as a migrant, and migration is a two way process implying regular come and return (e.g. birds migrate annually). Someone describing themselves as an immigrant would be intending to stay. A migrant intends to return home. So what are her plans? Will she get bored with the politics like she became bored with the dancing, the acting, the producing, the marriages, the humanitarian work, being anti-Trump, the local politics, the national politics?On a finally point she spoke of being of Irish descent (as her husband is Irish), however, Inboden is a German name so I am intrigued as to whether there is any Irish in her ancestry or whether it was hyperbole: being married to an Irishman is not the same as being of Irish descent.Wow...what a lot of questions about the PR construct that is the person that was born Joy Inboden (assuming even that is the case). Lest we be taken in!And please remember we all age! Healthcare is needed by practically everyone so laughing at what I say may come back to haunt you in bitter moments in decades to come as you wonder why you are waiting months for a hospital appointment. The bottom of a beer glass may have many easy answers today, a zimmerframe does not later in the future.

John Alan Peters ● 3072d

If Joy Morrissey "cares passionately for the NHS" why is she standing as a Conservative? I am still reeling of their selling of the publicly owned Plasma bank at a huge loss to the NHS and to a for profit company, thereby putting peoples lives at risk. This is why it was put in the public sector in the first place.

Libby Kemp ● 3072d

Why post this three times in separate threads?

Graham Weeks ● 3072d

Tory candidate mocked 'hysterical' Labour's NHS fears - in seat that's having its local hospital downgradedJoy Morrissey accused the party of "fetishising" the service and said people should stop calling it "our NHS" or "treating it like a religion"From: "The Mirror" today:  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-candidate-mocked-hysterical-labours-10562985A Tory election candidate mocked Labour as "deluded" and "hysterical" for warning about the NHS's future - in a seat whose local hospital is being downgraded.Joy Morrissey accused the party of "fetishising" the service and said people should stop calling it "our NHS" or "treating it like a religion" in a scathing blog last year.She wrote in January 2016: "The institution remains remarkably unchanged - the promised armageddon again failing to materialise."The credibility of these increasingly hysterical forecasts of doom can surely be no more than that of the deluded old soul wandering Oxford Street with his "The End Is Nigh' placard."The only one left for them now a NASA-style 10 second countdown."Her local Ealing Hospital is being downgraded from a district to a local hospital as part of national cost-cutting 'Sustainability and Transformation Plans' (STPs).She accused Labour of "fetishing" the service and told people to stop calling it "our NHS" (Photo: PA)The plan is set to cut the number of beds from 288 to 50 and leaves questions over the future shape of Ealing's A&E as part of a reduction from nine to five acute hospitals in north west London.Have your say on this storyComment BelowThe STP report says Ealing's current setup is "not financially sustainable" after it ran up a deficit of £30million.And it does not rule out an A&E downgrade, saying only: "No substantive changes to A&Es in Ealing will be made until there is sufficient alternative capacity out of hospital or in acute hospitals."The plan was formally published after Ms Morrissey's blog post last year, but campaigners said fears over Ealing Hospital had been known for some time. It has already had its paediatric and maternity wards closed with services moved elsewhere in north west London.Ms Morrissey's Labour rival Rupa Huq said: "This confirms what we already know - The Tories won’t protect Ealing [Hospital] because their candidate looks at our NHS with derision."She should apologise for these offensive remarks."Ms Morrissey is in a bitter battle to overturn the 274 majority of Labour's Rupa Huq (Photo: Getty)The hospital provides for thousands of people in the warring candidates' Ealing Central and Acton constituency, one of the most marginal seats in the country. It sits just outside the seat's boundary.Ms Huq is defending a majority of just 274 and the Greens and UKIP have pulled out to give each side a boost.Ms Morrissey wrote her blog post on the Conservative Way Forward website in January 2016 with a photo of her outside Ealing Hospital.In it she complained the Tories could "guarantee every patient the gift of eternal life and send them home with a complimentary pot of caviar and it still wouldn't be enough".She added: "Stop treating a valuable public service like a religion that can only be spoken of in a hushed tone of reverence rarely heard outside of the Vatican."We can begin by desisting from the glutinous and now obligatory practice of referring to 'Our' NHS.The blog post was written in January last year"For every member of the public that has bought into Labour's fetishisation of this institution there is an equally large and silent number that haven't."They do not gaze at the NHS with uncritical awe - and neither should we."Ms Morrissey became embroiled in a row over the NHS plans last week with Ms Huq.She pulled out of a hustings and threatened legal action against her Labour rival, accusing the campaign of "blatant lies" over a leaflet that said the hospital was closing.A spokeswoman for London North West Healthcare NHS Trust said: "There will be some changes at Ealing Hospital over the next three to five years, to provide local people with the services they use the most, so patients receive the best possible care. This will include a local A&E at Ealing Hospital.”Ms Morrissey has been contacted for comment by the Mirror, but had not replied at the time of publication.

John Alan Peters ● 3073d