JULIE Hilling and her Labour team have recently distributed two expensive looking, colourful, glossy news letters to residents in Heaton and Lostock campaigning to vote for her in the General Election and the Labour candidates for the Local Election.

I do not recall receiving anything from her before.

She and her team are very good at repeatedly telling us what she is campaigning for but perhaps she will tell us what she has actually achieved for her constituents in Bolton.

She retained the seat in 2010 with a small majority of 92 which only happened because the constituency boundaries were changed to include her home town of Atherton.

In the news letters, she says "Labour rescued the NHS after years of Tory neglect before. We will do it again." That is not true. What they did was what Labour always does which is to borrow and tax to spend money on problems which are then never resolved. You can solve any problem if you throw enough money at it but the secret of success is to ensure that you obtain value for money at minimum cost and solve the problem which Labour always fails to do and leaves a subsequent government to clear up their mess.

She also says that her pledge to us is a guarantee to see your GP within 48 hours. The Labour Government set that target which they failed to implement. Tony Blair was embarrassed in public when a lady asked him why she could not get an appointment within that timescale and he did not know anything about the target.

They also introduced privatisation into the NHS and a new GP contract whereby GPs were paid more money for less work. The Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group is now having to spend taxpayers money to allow access to GPs from 8am to 6.30pm.

In one of the publications, Labour are claiming credit for resurfacing Albert Road and Oakwood Drive when in fact it was Tory Cllr Bob Allen who was instrumental in having that work done.

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Bolton