Vigils against the NHS Bill today

March 19, 2012 at 1:53 am (Champagne Charlie, health service, labour party, privatisation, profiteers, Tory scum, welfare)

Today, Monday 19 March at 8pm, there will be a series of coordinated NHS Vigils, across the UK to draw attention to the importance of halting the Tory NHS Bill. Everyone interested in peacefully registering their opposition to the NHS Bill is welcome to attend (DETAILS BELOW).

The purpose of the meetings is to demonstrate to the House of Lords peers, the night before their crucial vote on the NHS, that people do not want this bill to become law. Only 14% of UK voters in the last YouGov poll actually wanted the NHS Bill to succeed. Two thirds of NHS workers also think the Bill will make things worse. We hope that peers look favourably upon the peaceful nature of the gatherings and give Lord Owen’s amendment, to halt the NHS Bill until the NHS Risk Register is published, the support it deserves.

Email if you’d like to attend. Please click the location of the demo you are interested for more details. Click tweet details of your local vigil to tweet your followers with details of your event.

London: St Thomas’s Hospital (contact @flutterbug20011) tweet details Cornwall: Treliske tweet details

Durham: Market Place (contact @Val_Hudson) tweet details Birmingham: Children’s Hospital & more here (contact @illdoitanyway) tweet details

Sheffield Hallam: (Nick Clegg’s Office) tweet details Merseyside: The Royal (contact @DebraPower or @NHS_vigil_Lpool) tweet details Newcastle: Grey’s Monument (contact @CarlKennedy77) tweet details

Belfast: The Royal Victoria Hospital (contact @LeftieHistorian) tweet details

Bath: The Pump Room tweet details

Nottingham: Market Square (the Lions) tweet details Plymouth: Derriford Hospital (contact @SuzyFlipp) tweet details Manchester Royal Infirmary (old entrance) tweet details

Middlesbrough James Cook Hospital (contact @CllrLenJunier) tweet details

Watford (Church Street) (contact @MillyTiz) tweet details

Leeds General Infirmary tweet details Hull: Queen Victoria Square or the local CLP page (contact @DermotR1968) tweet details York: Main Library, Museum Street (contact @MagsNews) tweet details

Oxford: Martyrs’ Memorial (contact @StuartGWhite) tweet details Bristol: College Green tweet details

Southampton Guildhall Square (contact @LaurEvans311) tweet details Brighton: Sussex County Hospital at 8pm (contact @JaneWuster) tweet details Worcester Royal Hospitalat 8pm  (contact @HummingBird1969) tweet details

Cardiff: at the Aneurin Bevan Statue on Queen Street at 8pm tweet details

Many thanks to Éoin Clarke of The Green Benches and the team at Labour Left for having put this together.

H-t: Left Futures