Jordy
11-04-2010, 12:37 PM
Quite easily the lowest point yet of the Labour Party, truly disgusting and inappropriate.
LABOUR has become embroiled in a row about the use of personal data after sending cancer patients alarmist mailshots saying their lives could be at risk under a Conservative government. Cards addressed to sufferers by name warn that a Labour guarantee to see a cancer specialist within two weeks would be scrapped by the Tories. Labour claims the Conservatives would also do away with the right to be treated within 18 weeks.
Cancer patients who received the personalised cards, sent with a message from a breast cancer survivor praising her treatment under Labour, said they were “disgusted and shocked”, and feared that the party may have had access to confidential health data.
And here's the opinion of people they were sent to...
- In the Labour constituency of Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, two of a group of eight women friends received the breast cancer card. They are the only two to have undergone cancer treatment. One of them, Phyllis Delik, 80, described it as “callous” and “despicable”. The second woman, Shirley Foreman, 58, who received the card a fortnight after undergoing surgery, said: “It is bad taste after what I have been through.”
- In the marginal east London constituency of Poplar and Limehouse, the card was sent to a 44-year-old television producer who had a potentially cancerous lump that turned out to be a cyst. She appeared to be the only person who received the mailshot among 50 neighbours. She said: “It’s crude and insensitive.”
- A card was sent to a woman who has died of breast cancer. Her 33-year-old husband was so upset that he sent a message to the Facebook page of Diane Dwelly, the woman whose case is featured in the mailshot, accusing her of being a pawn for the Labour party.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7094308.ece
Truly despicable, it's very questionable how they obtained such data and very insensitive to say the least. Especially as some were send out to terminal sufferers of cancer and even dead people with their unfortunate widower receiving the card. And of course the card is full of lies when the Conservatives would allow more drugs for Cancer Sufferers to become available which Labour currently blocks as too expensive, they will also increase funding too.
How low are Labour willing to go? Sending leaflets to prisoners next saying "We let you out!" ?
LABOUR has become embroiled in a row about the use of personal data after sending cancer patients alarmist mailshots saying their lives could be at risk under a Conservative government. Cards addressed to sufferers by name warn that a Labour guarantee to see a cancer specialist within two weeks would be scrapped by the Tories. Labour claims the Conservatives would also do away with the right to be treated within 18 weeks.
Cancer patients who received the personalised cards, sent with a message from a breast cancer survivor praising her treatment under Labour, said they were “disgusted and shocked”, and feared that the party may have had access to confidential health data.
And here's the opinion of people they were sent to...
- In the Labour constituency of Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, two of a group of eight women friends received the breast cancer card. They are the only two to have undergone cancer treatment. One of them, Phyllis Delik, 80, described it as “callous” and “despicable”. The second woman, Shirley Foreman, 58, who received the card a fortnight after undergoing surgery, said: “It is bad taste after what I have been through.”
- In the marginal east London constituency of Poplar and Limehouse, the card was sent to a 44-year-old television producer who had a potentially cancerous lump that turned out to be a cyst. She appeared to be the only person who received the mailshot among 50 neighbours. She said: “It’s crude and insensitive.”
- A card was sent to a woman who has died of breast cancer. Her 33-year-old husband was so upset that he sent a message to the Facebook page of Diane Dwelly, the woman whose case is featured in the mailshot, accusing her of being a pawn for the Labour party.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7094308.ece
Truly despicable, it's very questionable how they obtained such data and very insensitive to say the least. Especially as some were send out to terminal sufferers of cancer and even dead people with their unfortunate widower receiving the card. And of course the card is full of lies when the Conservatives would allow more drugs for Cancer Sufferers to become available which Labour currently blocks as too expensive, they will also increase funding too.
How low are Labour willing to go? Sending leaflets to prisoners next saying "We let you out!" ?