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High Peak - we deserve our fair share.
High Peak should be the best place to live in the whole country: we’ve got extraordinary countryside, strong communities and we’re the gateway to the Northern Powerhouse. With the world of work becoming more footloose, High Peak should be the most desirable place to run a business, to live, to work and to commute from and to.
But there’s one big barrier to this: the state of our local public services and infrastructure. We can’t boast of a great quality of life if we spend our lives waiting for delayed trains or stuck in traffic on the A6 and A57. We will never achieve our potential if there’s no affordable housing, if NHS dentists are as rare as hen’s teeth, or if people feel nervous walking home at night.
We pay our taxes – in fact we are paying the highest taxes in more than 70 years. But we have nothing to show for it. Glossop was supposed to be a priority for levelling up funding, but our money went south. Buxton was promised a new health hub, but this Conservative government axed it.
It’s time High Peak got its fair share. The next Labour Government will: revitalise and reform our NHS; work in partnership with business to green our economy and invest in the well paid, high skilled jobs of the future; and take back control of our buses and trains guaranteeing services and fares.
And it will be my job, if you elect me as your representative at the next election, to make sure we get our fair share. Our fair share of investment in our towns, high streets and communities. Our fair share of improvements to our schools, health and care services and our police. And our fair share of new jobs and business growth.
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Really looking forward to this on Sunday. Should be a fun day and a great way to raise vital funds to save Gamesley Community & Sports Centre.
Please join us if you can 👇This Sunday we’re raising funds for the Save Gamesley Community & Sports Centre by holding a family Funday. Lots of family activities including
🪅Bouncy castle🪅
🛼Roller disco🪩
🎨 Face-painting🎨
⚽️Beat the goalie🥅
🫧Giant Bubbles🫧
🥥 Coconut shy🥥
🥫Tin can Alley 🥫
🎯 Darts 🎯
🍪🧁Refreshments 🥤🧃
🍸Gin Bar and Beer 🍻
Plus lots of local stalls
The sun is going to shine, so come down and help make it a great day for Gamesley Community Centre.
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We were out on the doorstep in Whaley tonight with two new volunteers. One slight furrier than the other.
Every single person I spoke to mentioned the crisis in our NHS. Nearly 8 million people on waiting lists is a national scandal.
Labour has saved the NHS before and we will do it again.
The last Labour Government delivered the shortest waiting times and highest patient satisfaction in the NHS’s history.
The next Labour Government will get the NHS back on its feet.
The first step will be to cut NHS waiting times by delivering 40,000 more evening and weekend appointments. This will be paid for by cracking down on tax avoidance and closing the Tory non-dom loophole.
Our long term mission will be to deliver an NHS fit for the future. Not just shovelling more money in but delivering much needed reforms with more treatment in the community, earlier diagnosis and improved public health measures. Prevention is always better than cure for the person and the taxpayer.
This Government just doesn’t get the NHS.
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Jon Pearce for High Peak my 8 year old daughter is on a 2 year long waiting list for a serious eye condition. It's not good enough, we need a Labour government to turn around our NHS
We really could do with the 40 new hospitals promised by the tories ..
a word on all the Covid criminals youtu.be/BnTjmSv8VNo?si=UsDgXYb1KDKUGzjZ
Today Keir Starmer is launching his fully costed first steps for change.
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How do you “cost” the first one. It’s a bit nebulous and subject to wider factors beyond control of UK gov
Shame that sorting out the trains is not one of them
Easy way to avoid having to address point 1 & 3 and would help with point 2, Rejoin the EU! 1) Economic stability as businesses know where they are with standards, checks, tariffs and costs so they are more confident to invest. 3) New Border Security would not be needed by reaffirming the Dublin Accord. 2) Freedom of movement restored would allow the U.K. to access the EU’s pool of trained health professionals, avoiding the onerous barriers imposed by current work visas, thereby helping reduce the current NHS staff shortages and alleviating waiting times.
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I had a great time visiting Buxton Community School last week.
The Q & A with sixth formers was fun with loads of very well informed and challenging questions on everything from buses, to the closure of children’s centres, and stopping the pollution of our rivers.
Much better than BBC Question Time.
They even let me win at darts…
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a word on labour and Covid vaccine deaths Hi all … I went to the debate in the UK Parliament yesterday - 18th April - on excess deaths since Convid 19. I wrote this up from memory… (I did check a few facts … my memory isn’t that good!! 🤣) Wish I’d asked to bring my notebook in … It was damning. And it is now all on the public record. Below are a few nuggets of information. There was much more. My comments are in square brackets. 1. It was deemed “indisputable” by all that the Covid vaccine has caused deaths and other serious injuries. 2. There have been over 450,000 reports of adverse effects on the Yellow Card adverse effects reporting system since the vaccine was introduced in 2021 (including fatalities), more than all reports for all other vaccines in the previous 20 years. [This figure is far higher than the government originally admitted - report available online]. 3. The government’s compensation scheme for Covid vax injuries has paid the maximum compensation possible to 163 people for serious, life-changing injuries after the vax. And the scheme is very far behind in accessing vax claims. (There have been around 9,000 claims so far). 4. Maria Caulfield (from the Ministry of Health) herself admitted that “no vaccine is safe”. [This makes a complete mockery of their “safe and effective” campaign.] 5. When challenged by Neale Hanvey of the Alba Party that there was no longitudinal data in accessing vax safety as the pharma companies vaxed the control group after 8 weeks, Dr Kieran Mullen from the Conservative Party said that this was acceptable as the companies had included a higher volume of people than normal in that 8 week study. [No logic there …] 6. Neale Hanvey also stated that the vax has been discovered to be oncogenic (cancer-causing) by the scientist, Kevin McKernan, and other scientists have confirmed these findings. They are contaminated with plasmid DNA, which were not listed in the ingredients supposed to be in the vax. 7. Dr Angus Dalgleish, oncologist at George’s Hospital, London was referred to as stating that the vax roll out must stop - they are unsafe. He would have attended the debate but was instead speaking at a conference in Berlin on this subject. 8. The way that excess deaths are calculated by the ONS was changed by the government after the Covid vax was introduced, so they are not comparable with stats pre this time. Therefore excess deaths are even higher than the 5% for last year. 9. Excess deaths due to heart disease have increased significantly in the young to middle age bracket since the Covid vax. This is in line with the spike protein not staying in the arm but travelling all over the body and forming clots. Clots in vessels around the heart cause heart disease. Clots around the lungs and brain cause strokes. This info was from Andrew Bridgen who has a scientific background. 10. Data regarding the numbers of deaths in those vaxed v unvaxed are no longer being released to the public, only to the pharma companies. This data is now deemed sensitive. The government thinks that it might be “misused” if released to the public. 11. It was stated that Module 4 of the Covid enquiry which deals with the vaccine was put on hold until next year, and most agreed that further research needs to be done into the issues raised. 12. Despite all of the above, the Government and Labour Party Opposition representatives at the debate both stated that the vax roll out should continue. Éilís 💛
On International Nurses Day, I want to say thank you to our nurses who work so hard to care for those in need.
My Mum was a nurse. My niece is a nurse. In fact most of my family work in the NHS. I hear first hand about the crisis our NHS is facing.
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I have had more engagements with the NHS in the last few years I'd care to count; however, all of the auxiliary and nursing staff to doctors I met and was dealt with were extremely helpful, kind and supportive. We need NHS and the population to tell this government so!
Please ensure that any positive pledges made by Starmer involving the NHS remain in place and are carried out when you're in office.
You need to sort the Dr's dispute out to prevent the exodus of all our trained medics..they are valued in the Antipodes as they are so highly skilled. We train them, they benefit.
Great to join our brilliant local councillor Cllr Sally de Pee, Chapel West Ward and local police for a surgery this morning.
Thanks to the Morrisons staff for looking after us and all the people that stopped to say hello.
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I’d be careful hanging round with PC 15031, he would appear to breach PACE guidelines when following up baseless allegations. Complaints ongoing.
Yet more evidence local Tories running Derbyshire County Council are just as chaotic and incompetent as the ones running the country.
Thanks to people like Paula and Greg campaigning and bravely telling their story we may finally see some long overdue changes to SEND provision in High Peak.
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Parents 'grieving for children's lost childhood' over schools row
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Their two children will be out of school for a year due to a lack of support within mainstream education to help with their needs1 CommentComment on Facebook
Heartbreaking what this poor family have been put through. It's just not right that there's no SEND provision in Glossop. My 4 year old will be having to get LA transport to Chapel-en-le-Frith every day from September because that's the nearest school that can meet her needs. I hope Labour make a promise to reform SEND provision #thesendvotematters #sendreformengland ❤️
Great to be back on the doorstep in Chapel after our hugely successful local election results last week.
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Looks like a top team there, Jon!
This is richly deserved recognition for Headteacher, Ken Weed, and all the staff at Hadfield Nursery School. I was so impressed when I visited them last year.
Congratulations 👏👏👏
#hadfield #highpeak
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Hadfield Nursery School receive an 'outstanding' Ofsted report
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Hadfield Nursery School received a one-day Ofsted inspection in March and remained outstanding, a grading they have held since 2007.2 CommentsComment on Facebook
Thank you very much!
Well deserved👏👏👏