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(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
UPDATE: Peter Bone has now denied he wrote the email. Here’s his press release:
Press Release from Peter Bone. Curiouser and curiouser.
A confidential email from a Tory MP posted on a website purportedly shows how local hospital closures are being kept secret from the public until after the election in order to avoid ‘sensitive’ issues arising during the election campaign.
The leaked email from Wellingborough Tory MP Peter Bone to a member of the Board of Directors of the local NHS Clinical Commissioning Group supposedly shows how police and fire station closures are also being secretly delayed until after the election:
From: Bone, Peter <peter.bone.mp@parliament.uk>
Date: Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:16 PM
Subject: Proposed relocation of services consultation
To: “Rees, Stuart”
Dear Stuart,
Thank you very much for your telephone call earlier today regarding the proposed consultation with regards to the possible relocation of services from the Isebrook Hospital site. Whilst a huge supporter of the Isebrook site during my time as MP, I appreciate that the CCG has difficult decisions to make in the interim and I will certainly engage with the consultation process.
As discussed earlier, the Police & Crime Commissioner Adam Simmonds has held off the announcement on the closure of the cells at Wellingborough police station and relocation of remaining personnel to the Criminal Justice Centre in Northampton until after the election. The same can be said about the proposed closure of Rushden fire station, and the other small fire stations in the county.
With the imminent elections, these issues could prove very sensitive. As such, I would like to thank you for holding off this particular consultation until the end of May. This will prevent the issue becoming an election issue and will allow the community to come together to respond to the consultation.
With very best wishes,
Peter
Interestingly, the email claims to be leaked by a local Tory activist, fed up with the lies and corruption from his local MP:
Local Tories in Wellingborough turn on their Tory candidate Peter Bone
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Clearly Mr Bone regards the seat as his by right – much like the arrogant Tory MP for Wimbledon who discovered that there are limits to just how contemptuously you can treat your constituents when he was turfed out in 1997 – lets hope Mr Bone learns his lesson in the same salutary fashion.
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Hi,
Very interesting read.
Do you have any hard evidence this is true? I’d like to reblog this but want to substantiate the claim first. At the moment it’s just a blog post written like an email.
Thanks very much!
[Well, I’m sure I’ll be hearing from Mr Bone’s lawyers if it is “just a blopost written like an email”. Click on the link in the blogpost for the source] – TOM
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Surely this potentially brings a new meaning to the expression ‘bonehead’.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Tom Pride here presents the email from Peter Bone, in which the Tory MP attempts to prevent news of the closure of police and fire stations in Wellingborough, and the relocation of some services from Isebrook Hospital, from leaking out until after the election. Clearly, he doesn’t want the news of the closures getting out to make him lose his seat.
And you can be sure that if Bone’s doing it in Wellingborough, then other Tory MPs are doing much the same thing elsewhere in the country. After all, it was a Tory MP, who said that the NHS wouldn’t exist in five years’ time if the Tories got in again. And Andrew Lansley, the current health secretary, has made it very clear he wants the NHS to be privatised.
This all makes a nonsense of the Tory claim that they’re going to increase NHS funding by £8bn. It’s another empty promise, like all the others. The reality is more closures, and more privatisation by the backdoor.
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Interesting. It is good to see Tory voters in general do not agree with corruption and such as well. Good on that Blogger! Cheers for sharing.
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If you’re going to try to smear someone, at least get the formatting of the email address correct. Parliamentary email addresses go in the format @parliament.uk.
Shoddy work, but nice try…
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PLEASE SHARE THIS IF YOU VALUE OUR NHS!!!
This Peter Bone was the same crackpot who was trying to get his Bill for National Service through in 2013/14, luckily it was absolutely crushed on the second reading. My surprise is he hasn’t defected to the UKIPS yet, his views are so extreme right wing he would fit right in.
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As usual, only part of the story – it says possible relocation of services – some services, not saying which and not saying what other investment there could be. The published plan is to build a new Criminal Centre in North Northants, near Kettering and close the cells then – anyone knows that the cells are not fit for purpose at Wellingborough and when was the last time you went to a police station? The fire station proposal is to amalgamate public service property holdings so that they run from the same site – it has already happened at Thrapston. All sensible suggestions.
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Peter Bone and Hollobone of Kettering might as well be UKIP. They are certainly right wing enough. Just look at their voting records. I’d be surprised if the email wasn’t true as the closures have been talked about.
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“If you’re going to try to smear someone, at least get the formatting of the email address correct. Parliamentary email addresses go in the format @parliament.uk.
Shoddy work, but nice try…”
Funny that, the email format is exactly the same as my MP who I have contacted before. It’s as if your finding problems which don’t exist. Snorting Osbourne’s lines again are we? Say hi to Tory HQ for me!
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Hi,
Very interesting read.
Do you have any hard evidence this is true? I’d like to reblog this but want to substantiate the claim first. At the moment it’s just a blog post written like an email.
Thanks very much!
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Until this is found to be absolutely factually true I would not suggest anybody re-blogging this. The blog itself shows no evidence that the blogger is indeed a lifelong Tory supporter or who infact he/she actually is and frankly no-one who genuinely is a Cons supporter (whatever their gripe with an individual) would stir up such a damaging campaign that could threaten the chances of returning a Tory Govt. If this in anyway is factually inaccurate, Mr Bone could throw the book at you and anyone else found to be re-blogging and I wouldn’t blame him. IP addresses are very traceable.
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The police and fire closures have been in the making for a while. The hospital I didn’t know about, but the Kettering and Northampton ones were earmarked for closure/relocation. MP’s are like this in the area:
Wellingborough- Peter Bone CONS
Kettering- Philip Hollobone CONS
Corby- Andy Sawford LAB
Both Bone and Hollobone were rumoured to be defecting to UKIP. Even the Mail reported it: “Three more Conservative MPs poll their voters on leaving the EU… just like Reckless and Carswell did before defecting to Ukip”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2840524/What-three-Tory-MPs-polled-voters-leaving-EU-just-like-two-defected-Ukip.html#ixzz3Y83xP1NI
I’m from the area and I also know a local PCSO. The police closures were considered last year: http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/top-stories/furious-reaction-from-mp-as-police-station-closure-proposals-are-revealed-1-6376859
In my opinion, the email adds with the facts on the ground.
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“Funny that, the email format is exactly the same as my MP who I have contacted before. It’s as if your finding problems which don’t exist. Snorting Osbourne’s lines again are we? Say hi to Tory HQ for me!”
If I were a Tory, then I would, but fortunately I’m not.
Bone’s Parliamentary email address is bonep@parliament.uk, my own MP’s email address is horwoodm@parliament.uk, that’s the format that Parliamentary email addresses take, not name.surname.mp@parliament.uk
The content may be contain the views of Bone and the Conservative Party, that’s none of my concern, I’m merely pointing out that it ‘allegedly’ comes from a made up email address.
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Peter Bone MP
Peter Bone MP
PRESS RELEASE
23rd April, 2015.
PRESS RELEASE – PRESS RELEASE – PRESS RELEASE
PETER BONE REFUTES COMPLETELY BOGUS, LIBELLOUS AND FALSE EMAIL
A blog site has published a completely false email purporting to come from me on the 8th April 2015, to Mr Stuart Rees at NHS Nene Clinical Commissioning Group (Nene CCG).
This email is completely bogus and fabricated. No such email was written by me. As I understand it, it has been impossible for me to send any emails from my parliamentary account since the 30th March when Parliament was dissolved. As such, I could never have sent any such email in the first place.
The contents of the email are totally untrue and do not represent my views. This is an attempt to smear me, and the Conservative Party, during the General Election campaign.
I have campaigned long and hard for a Minor Accident & Emergency Unit at the Isebrook Hospital. In fact, recently, the Conservative Health Minister approved a £35million plan for an expansion to the A&E at Kettering and a Minor Accident & Emergency Unit at the Isebrook site.
ENDS
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Now I would sue and ignore the very bolshy comments on this page about anyone who ‘dares’ to get legal. That in itself is simply a warning. I’d sue this blog and any other blog sharers who defame individuals characters like this without substantiating the full facts first.
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Chris that is simply untrue, here is Peter Bone HIMSELF publishing peter.bone.mp@parliament.uk as his email:
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Sorry Alex, I don’t see a link on your comment. If you google the dodgy address, the only hits you find are references to this alleged email either here, on Mumsnet or on the ‘Tory activist’ who leaked the message in the first place.
On the Wellingborough Conservative site (http://wellingboroughconservatives.org/contact/) it lists the email address I provided.
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The link is right there to Peter Bone’s Twitter account. Click on it. Stop trying to muddy the water Chis, Peter Bone himself used that email address when addressing a constituent on Twitter, ergo it is a genuine email address and you are just plain wrong.
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This story had pretty we been confirmed as a fake. We have all been conned.
See: http://www.neneccg.nhs.uk/news/2015/political-blog-relating-to-isebrook-hospital/
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It looked fishy just by content. Why would he be mentioning the PCC business in the email? Even if they’d discussed it before, it seemed a strange thing to reiterate in detail in what amounted to a thank you email.
If they were intending on further allegations (which was implied) they’ve kind of shot their bolt.
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I want to get rid of the Tories as much as you do but this is clearly a forgery and the clinical commissioning group have confirmed it. Bone would not even be able to use that email account during purdah.We don’t need to resort to libel and dirty tricks to get this lot out.
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From grantshappsapedia:
“Bone is a supporter of faith groups,[23] the right-wing of the Conservative Party, and is a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group. He has suggested major constitutional changes such as abolition of the Whips office and confirmation of new Cabinet appointees.[24] His criticisms of the NHS include a 2007 report, in which he argued that it “would not be out of place in Stalin’s Russia”.[25] He has voted to lower the abortion time limit to twelve weeks and voted against abolishing the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel. He has urged the Charity Commission to award the tax breaks of registration to any legal faith group.[26] The abortion time limit vote failed, the blasphemy vote passed, and tax breaks were not awarded.[27][28]
Bone has signed several Early Day Motions supporting homoeopathy and voted against regulations which secured equality for gay men and women in the provision of goods and services in 2007. In 2012, Bone described government proposals to introduce same-sex marriage rights as “completely nuts”,[29] He subsequently voted against the bill which passed its second reading in February 2013.[30]”
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