Longstanding readers will remember 2017, the year the local Tories ruthlessly started stripping out our Community Hospitals and the disgraceful part played by Sarah Randall -Johnson in particular.
Now Simon Jupp is trying to rewrite history in order to save his skin.
Below is the Hansard record of Richard Foord’s attempt to raise the matter in yesterday’s PMQs.
The prime Minister’s reply is a desperate attempt to deflect the question into a pathetic name check for Simon Jupp who has no official parliamentary standing to be representing Seaton.
What does “providing a future sustainable use” actually mean?
It shows just how worried the Tories are of being wiped out in East Devon.
Q3. On behalf of the Liberal Democrats, may I associate myself and my party with all the comments about the protection of innocent civilians today wherever they may be? A whole wing of Seaton Hospital in Devon is earmarked for demolition under this Government. The proposal to demolish this wing is an insult to the communities that raised millions of pounds to help fund the upkeep of services at that hospital. The space was given to NHS Property Services, but, thanks to the charging policy introduced by the Conservatives, that company is demanding £300,000 in rent. Will the Prime Minister let NHS Property Services hand over the space to health charities and community interest groups so that we can stop a wrecking ball going through Seaton Hospital? (906571)
As the hon. Gentleman knows, decisions about hospital infrastructure are a matter for the NHS. I am told that Devon Integrated Care Board is working together with NHS Property Services and local community healthcare providers to establish a future sustainable use for the currently vacant space. May I also take the opportunity to commend the work that my hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Simon Jupp) is doing on this topic?
And here is how Simon Jupp twists the reality on his twitter account. We are left to infer that it was him who asked the PMQ. His video clip, for example, doesn’t include Richard Foord asking the question.
Claire Wright calls the game he’s playing “a marginal seat scam”.
Owl’s message – Leopards don’t change their spots!
The video recording of PMQs can be found here. Richard Foord’s question starts at 24:30 mins. If you continue to the next question you can catch a short glimpse of Simon Jupp sitting at the back of the chamber looking very smug after being mentioned by the PM.
East Devon Watch 
We all know that it is Richard Foord who is helping us, certainly not Simon Jupp – and he isn’t even our MP, and hopefully will not be. The Conservatives were the ones lying to us and manipulating meetings so that they could close our hospitals. The people of Axminster and Seaton were the ones that suffered, being the furthest away from the Major hospitals, the poor public transport.
We shall not forget what went on when our hospitals were closed and it is good reason to never vote Conservative ever again.
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Let’s remember what the last MP for this area did for one of the hospitals that was in his constituency, and why I’m thinking of Ottery St Mary hospital (which now performs a number of very useful functions).
For this we need to go outside of Hansard though to the written record of a woman employed in the House of Commons as a senior researcher (at our expense). I refer of course to Sasha Swire and her infamous diaries. I quote from Devon Live ;- “Lady Sasha Swire’s new book reveals that she and her husband refer to a pair of diligent local councillors as “toilet seats” and that he launched a campaign to save Ottery Hospital – even though he wasn’t standing for re-election – “for no other reason than to annoy” independent Claire Wright.
I think we can assume that no part of the NHS was or will be safe in Tory hands.
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