PM's lies permeate our very existence

What an eloquent, informed and insightful letter, as ever, from Steve Rouse (SA, June 11).

Our (so-called) PM's lies permeate our very existence.

'Partygate' - enough said, already - party on, against your own rules, PM - you disgust us!

Brexit - an utter con - '£350 million a week for the NHS' was denied - decried even - by the stool pigeon Farage the day after the vote. It has been an utter disaster - just ask those in travel, hospitality, agriculture, freight, etc.

Northern Ireland - more smoke and mirrors than David Blaine, Darren Brown and Dynamo combined - the UK country abandoned and left to its own devices!

Most of all, though (let us not forget) the Covid 19 Pandemic - lie after lie after lie - and this from someone who didn't even attend his own COBRA meetings on the subject, at the beginning!

"It's nothing to worry about", "we are well prepared" and "we have thrown a protective ring around our care homes"! Really? The facts say differently!

A week ago - 179,000 deaths (and counting) - the seventh worst in the whole world!

As for care homes, there were 35,067 "excess deaths" in the first two months of the pandemic - when the government forced care homes to take elderly patients back from hospital, who hadn't even had a Covid test, yet alone a negative one! Read the Nuffield Trust report and weep!

Boris Johnson, and his bunch of fellow clowns, have proved, time and again, that are not fit to run the country. For the love of God, go now!

Steve Cowdry

Saddleback Road

Shaw

Better help needed for diabetes patients

Diabetes is a hidden condition, but the people living with diabetes should never be put to the back of the queue because of that. One in 14 of us live with diabetes and even more care for a loved one who does.

Earlier this year, Diabetes UK ran a survey of more than 10,000 people to understand better the experiences of people living with diabetes in accessing care over the past two years during the Covid pandemic.

In the south west, 45 per cent of respondents told us they had difficulty managing their condition in 2021.

Of these 63 per cent attributed this in part to not having sufficient access to their healthcare team, and 14 per cent per cent reported having no contact with their healthcare team about their diabetes since the pandemic began in March 2020.

That’s why, this Diabetes Week (13-19 June), we’re calling on decision makers across the UK to do more to support people living with and affected by diabetes.

Let’s stand together and tell them to listen. We’re calling for a commitment that diabetes is put at the heart of national and local health plans so people living with, and at risk of, diabetes get the care they need.

Visit diabetes.org.uk today, to sign up to receive the latest updates from our campaign, Diabetes Is Serious, and find out more ways you can get involved.

Phaedra Perry

Diabetes UK South West and South Central Regional Head

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