Swaffham Red Lion Pub and King's Lynn Queen Elizabeth Hospital praised; PM Liz Truss: Lynn News letters September 9
PRAISE
Overwhelmed by kindness of people and hospital staff
On Saturday I was reminded of the genuine kindness of people and how lucky we all are to have the NHS in every hour of the day, beavering away behind the scenes to look after us all. They certainly did with myself. I had met Ann (my partner) who was working away at a care assignment for the week at Castle Acre. We decided to meet in her daily two-hour break at Swaffham for lunch and positioned ourselves outside The Red Lion pub.
It was a very hot day and as I commenced eating my lunch I started to feel unwell and fainted. I fell back into the arms of the lady on the next bench who held me and gradually lowered me to the floor. She thought that I was having some sort of seizure and asked for an ambulance to be called. To my surprise, within just 10 minutes one arrived and started doing some tests on the floor where I had ended up.
The paramedics then transferred me to the ambulance where they did more tests on the way to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Lynn.
Upon arrival, I was taken into A&E and was immediately found an area to be treated. Within 15 minutes or so I was seen by a doctor and then another about one hour later. Various nurses also came in at various intervals to carry out more tests.
The upshot was I was released Saturday mid-evening and given the all clear.
However, I was just overwhelmed by the kindness of Swaffham people and staff at the Red Lion Pub and, of course, all the staff at the hospital.
John Hessenthaler
via email
POLITICS
Watch out for the back stabbers Liz!
Well, after all the hype of the last few weeks, we now have a new leader who has promised the earth while campaigning and is still making those same promises now that she is the Prime Minister.
However, promises, manifestos, call them what you will, are made to be broken or put on the back burner as we have often seen in the past.
Dear old Boris had it all and then blew it all, Sunak and Gove being the chief back stabbers that ensured that he was doomed to be shown the door.
Memo to our new Prime Minister, you have inherited a poisoned challis, trust no one now that you sit as head of the top table, your “right honourable friends” do not know the meaning of the word “honourable.”
Beware of what lies beneath the smiles and the nodding heads as you put forward your ideas to save us all from penury.
We the electorate will now watch every move that our new PM makes, to many broken promises or not getting it right on the night and just like the leopard, many voters will change their spots and tick the box at the next general election that could put Starmer into Number 10.
This is often not done because they are particularly want
Labour to win, it’s done in anger because, once again, promises become just empty words.
I remain as ever my usual cynical self and look forward to what West Norfolk MP James Wild has to say.
What about our new hospital James. Is Ms Truss going to sign that one off? Lord knows with all the pontificating in the past, we’ve waited long enough.
Alan Mudge
Pentney
Even Churchill has changed allegiances
The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss is to be congratulated on becoming Prime Minister and I can testify to her excellent track record as a constituency MP on how she helped me with a pressing matter.
It was disappointing to see the BBC water down her achievement before going to Balmoral to see the Queen for an invitation to form a new Government.
Inordinate attention was given to Ms Truss’ involvement with the Liberal Democrats prior to reaching big heights in the Conservative Party.
It should be remembered that Winston Churchill left the Tories to join the Liberals in 1904 and remained a member until 1924 before rejoining his old party. It didn’t preclude a legacy of a great wartime leader, something which the Wokists find offensive. So what!
The new Prime Minister must be given a chance to come up with the goods which cannot be supplied overnight.
To this end the left leaning BBC should be reminded of the words by the Labour PM Clem Attlee to his Party Chairman Harold Laski, “A period of silence on your part would be welcome”... unless it embraces impartiality!
David Fleming
Downham
Don’t expect any special treatment
Excited as some of us are to have a new ‘Norfolk’ PM I suggest this novelty will soon wear off once it dawns upon Norfolk (and the wider world) that Liz Truss promises long and delivers short.
Here in Downham we used to see her in the early honeymoon days walking around with the kids and having a curry in town but once she’d got her feet under our table and
assumed we’d forgotten all those airy promises made at her acceptance speech to work for her chosen people who voted for her she became increasingly invisible.
We now have an uncommunicative and aloof MP and frankly it looks like we’ve been duped onto voting for someone who merely needed us for a platform for her career aspirations.
Let’s hope the nation doesn’t come to the same conclusion in a few months’ time.
The Lynn News carried pages of excited content trumpeting her Norfolk associations and although technically her constituency is SW Norfolk my guess is her heart isn’t here and never was and we won’t get any favours from her.
Time will tell but our experience so far doesn’t bode well for the nation and a hope for ‘special treatment’ for us here in her adopted county I’d suggest is a forlorn one.
“The caravan rolled into town ....the dogs barked....and the caravan moved on”...
Steve Mackinder
Denver
She is a political shape shifter
It didn’t matter if it was Sunak or Truss who won, the people of Britain and people in our area were always going to lose out.
The Conservatives have spent months failing to act on soaring energy bills, leaving local residents in despair and small businesses going to the wall.
We didn’t get a say on the new Prime Minister and the Tories have shown they are completely out of touch with people in Norfolk.
It does, however, sound like they are finally listening to Liberal Democrat calls to freeze energy bills to save businesses, families and pensioners from an economic catastrophe.
Liz Truss is a Boris Johnson loyalist who voted to hike taxes on local people and spent months failing to act on soaring energy bills.
Her premiership represents more of the same failed Conservative party policies that have led to a cost of living crisis and our local NHS services stretched to breaking point. Liz Truss has made promises about our QEH being a priority and I will hold her to account on this.
People right across our area tell me they are sick and tired of a Government which simply doesn’t represent them and takes them for granted.
How we can trust Liz Truss and what she says or believes is beyond me.
She changes her position like the wind, a political shapeshifter to benefit only her. We saw that in her party affiliation, views on the monarchy and Brexit, to her selling out Norfolk farmers with her awful trade deals.
A general election should now follow.
Cllr Rob Colwell
Parliamentary spokesperson for North West Norfolk Liberal Democrats
