MP candidate Councillor Dave McElroy calls for more investment to rescue our NHS
Here in Reading we know what under-investment means. It means a crumbling Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH), nurses under paid, and junior doctors ready to strike. I’m not naïve; I know this means money and reform.
The Green Party has called on the next government to invest an extra £50bn a year to rescue our NHS, financed by taxes on the top 1% of earners.
Greens would end ‘sneaky privatisation’ of our NHS
Years of underfunding and sneaky privatisation plans have left our NHS just like our hospital buildings – falling down around our ears. Our nurses, our doctors, our cleaning staff, our administrators – all the people who look after us – need real hope now, and the two old dinosaur parties are offering nothing but fantasy plans to end the crisis.
More private sector, even longer hours and squeeze even more patients into overcrowded wards. It’s a diagnosis of doom.
You can’t build a health service for the future without raising the money you need through fairer taxation, as well as getting rid of profit from healthcare.
Councillor Dave McElroy says ‘The tooth hurts’
The Green Party is proposing increasing funding for the English NHS by £30bn a year by 2030. We need that money to raise NHS frontline workers’ salaries, ensure rapid GP access, provide same-day urgent care, and guarantee everyone an NHS dentist.
In Reading, it’s the Green Party who have long campaigned for access to a dentist for everybody. People are pulling out their own teeth – it’s a scandal.
Green MP candidate Councillor Dave McElroy’s pledge to you
I’ll pledge to work for practical solutions that offer real hope and real change, support our amazing staff, and invest in the RBH to defend our NHS, not sell it off to new chums in big business.
A vote for Green in Reading tells a new Government what they need to know – that we care, we have a voice, and we’re determined to support real change for the future of everyone.
Greens are the second largest party in Reading
As the main opposition party on Labour-run Reading Council Green councillors will continue to work constructively to get the best for Reading residents. There are now eight Green Party councillors and we are now four councillors ahead of the Conservatives. We will keep working hard all year round on the issues that matter to residents.
If you’re keen on being part of the change in Reading, get involved and help us make Reading fairer, greener and cleaner: reading.greenparty.org.uk/get-involved
By Green Party MP candidate Councillor Dave McElroy
