I thought this was your website..... Maybe I'm thick, but, as a totally non-politically-aligned person with no axe to grind for or against any party, when I read the Christie statement in the Reporter, and when I listen to what the BBC says, I get the very clear impression that the authorities were planning to cut back at Christies, but that the pressure of publicity stopped them, pressure from the Doctors which was amplified by John Leech's intervention, pressure which worked because it was applied at the right moment and a panicky Labour administration backtracked rapidly to try and save its neck at election time, but failed. I may be wrong, but that is the way it reads looking at the Chrisite statement and BBC. And frankly, after the experience of Withington Hospital locally, and Iraq nationally, not to mention the disgraceful sight of Tony Blair this week desperately trying to say black is white by denying any connection between London bombings and Iraq, then I know which I am going to believe if I have to choose between Labour party statements and the BBC/Christies statements. Sounds to me like the staff and patients of Christies owe John Leech a vote of thanks, not a brickbat, because he forced the authorities to scrap a hidden agenda.

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