Scunthorpe Constituency

PPC - Steven Hopkins

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Biography:

I am a local doctor and have lived and worked in Scunthorpe for 5 years and before that in Lincoln both with the Police and HMP Lincoln. I have served in the Royal Naval Reserve for 8 years serving in HMS Camperdown in Dundee Scotland where I trained as a medical student.

Our NHS is in a crisis due to mismanagement and far too much bureaucracy. It is overly reliant on Policies, Procedures and “Guidelines” that stifle initiative and the search by individual doctors to do better. Throwing good money after bad is not the answer.

We need to use the considerable recourses far better and that requires a degree of imagination and flexibility the NHS just does not have. Surgeons need more beds. In WWII when we had a similar need for more surgical beds we built temporary hospitals to care for all the casualties from the Dieppe and Normandy landings.

Why restrict ourselves to building multi-million pound hospitals in town centres when we could build prefab hospitals in green field sites with space and parking at a fraction of the cost. We need more efficient utilisation of manpower and resources.

Tax is at the highest levels since WWII and this under a “conservative” government. Their mantle of Fiscal Prudence was lost many times over the years. Do you remember when Norman Lamont tried to tie us into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and interest rates rose to 17% and businesses went bust and homeowners were unable to pay their mortgages. Now we are again in a financial crisis of the Conservatives’ own making.  And yet, Labour are no better. They have never left office without first creating a financial crisis.

George Galloway has expressed it beautifully; they are both cheeks of the same backside. Both want to spend more money that we don’t have and neither are prepared to cut their spending according to our means.

Most of us would want to leave things a bit better for our children. But ask yourself if you have done that by supporting the two legacy parties. Our youngsters are left to pay off their Student Loans, cannot afford housing, have to pay for the current pensions of our elderly, pay high taxes and have cash left over to save for their own old age. Oh yes, and they have to repay all the money we borrowed to make our lives more comfortable.

We need to reduce the burden of taxation. Reform UK promises to lift the point at which you pay income tax to £20,000. To prevent a repeat of the “Liz Truss” debacle, we will sack the current governor of the Bank of England and replace him with someone competent to do the job.

Immigration needs to be controlled and we have to look very carefully at who we are letting in. No more terrorists, criminals and rapists. If they arrive on a boat, we take them bake to France. Simple. Rawanda is just another very expensive exercise in futility. Unlike Rishi and Starmer, I am here to support you, not pamper to the French.

Just this time, try something different, practical and inexpensive. Vote Reform UK.

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