CLLR Chadwick's response (Your Letters, October 8) to my previous letter concerning Labour's “selective amnesia” over its far-from-perfect stewardship of the NHS when last in Government, lacked any kind of admission of past policy mistakes and how it has left an adverse legacy that has had to be dealt with by their successors.
It only confirms what I said that there is a culture within Labour of selective amnesia over past failures in the NHS for electoral advantage — no mention of Stafford, of the botched GP contracts and deliberate policy of open-door immigration that have put massive pressure on A&E departments and on waiting lists.
Nor is their mention of the massive NHS long-term debts arising from PFI that Labour now says it opposes.
Considering the financial mess left by the last Labour Government's economic policies,we should be thankful we still have a reasonable health service at all.
The failure to acknowledge mistakes leaves Labour unprepared and unfit to govern.
Derek Bullock Bolton English Democrats
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