DAILY REFERENDUM: Cancer

Sunday, 11 April 2010

General Election - Labour, how low can you go? - Cancer scare.

Labour are being accused of sending out 250,000 targeted leaflets to women who are suffering - or who have suffered from - breast cancer. The leaflets are designed to scare women into believing that voting for a Conservative government would endanger their lives. It should be noted that the Conservative party are the only party promising to ring fence the NHS budget. Does this mark an all time low in political campaigning? How did the Labour party get hold of the personal information required to target these women? Have the data protection laws been broken? These questions need answering and an apology should be made immediately.

Responding to the news that the Labour Party has been caught sending alarmist literature on breast cancer to cancer sufferers, Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said:

“It is shameful that the Labour Party, knowing that we are the only party that is going to increase investment in the NHS, have decided to deliberately scare patients and misrepresent what we have said. I’m actually rather shocked that they are trying to target breast cancer patients and alarm them by making up stories about what the Conservative Party would do.
I think Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, should write to every woman Labour sent these cards to and apologise and withdraw these claims.”

At a meeting of Conservative bloggers I attended a short while ago, Eric Pickles warned that Labour would fight a very dirty campaign, even so, I didn't think that they would sink this low.

Friday, 15 January 2010

Thick of It spin doctor Malcolm Tucker uses the "C" word.

The Thick of It legendary spin doctor Malcolm Tucker has taken to the air to warn British men about the biggest threat to their health in the modern age - their own silence.

Peter Capaldi, renowned for his character’s unbridled profanity, is issuing a new party line for Macmillan Cancer Support’s Cancertalk Week, which runs from 18-24 January. And the ‘c word’ he is ranting about might not be the one you would expect.