IT hasn't taken Labour long, has it? They have only been in power for six weeks and already one MP has said that the NHS is under greater threat than it ever was under the Conservatives.

For years, whilst they were in opposition, the NHS was a main plank for them and all sorts of scaremongering went on. But what do they do as soon as they get into power?

First of all, they threaten pensioners with prescription charges and, now, health minister Frank Dobson has refused to rule out charges being made for the NHS service.

Just how hypocritical can they get? The slightest mention of private health schemes is enough to give them apoplexy.

Yet there we are, with madcap schemes being mooted to make people pay for the services they refuse to let the same people arrange privately.

GRANVILLE BROADHURST, Sharples Street, Accrington.

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