A “Doncaster” doctor used by David Cameron to promote his health reforms yesterday has quit his commissioning group and doesn’t even live in Doncaster. The prime minister attempted to embarrass Miliband at PMQs by quoting a medical worker supposedly from his own constituency:
Speaking as acting chairman of the Doncaster pathfinder CCG he said this: ”Becoming one of the first national pathfinding areas is a real boost for Doncaster” … I think what is good for Doncaster is good for the rest of the NHS too.”
But the health profession magazine GP magazine has revealed that Dr Conner was no longer chairman of the commissioning group — at the cornerstone of Andrew Lansley’s controversial reforms — and had actually left the area.
Nice attack line. Shame about the facts.
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Get a grip, PC. Good as it is, this is very weak stuff.
I don’t get this, he spoke as Chairman of the Doncaster pathfinder CCG, Cameron quoted him as doing so. The fact that he later moved/ changed jobs has bugger all to do with anything surely?
If Cameron had only admitted that he had to go back to 2010 to find a positive comment from a single GP about the health reforms, he could have avoided this problem.
It as everything to do with PMQs If Cameron doesn;t know who is doing what and where regarding NHS he aint doing his job properly. The fact tht ED Milliband constituency is Doncaster makes it even worse for Cameron. Cameron could be in big trouble for the cock up
Please check all of Cameron’s answers, he is often incorrect.
To suggest that Cameron is often incorrect at PMQs is being polite! There are often blatant lies!
I don’t understand why government sympathisers get so fed up with anyone who scrutinsies what Cameron actually says that they go on blogs and and whinge about the accountability this sort of criticism means he has to undergo. You hear things like “weak stuff” and “this has bugger all to do with anything”. YOUR PRIME MINISTER IS TELLING SMUG LIES ON THE PUBLIC STAGE TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE HIM HE’S LIKE A TEENAGER FOR CHRIST SAKE.
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