Press Release: Working with Political Parties

Hampshire Against Fluoridation represents the 72% of concerned local people who responded with a resounding NO to having industrial grade fluoride added to their drinking water. The decision by unelected board members of the South Central Strategic Health Authority to go ahead despite this strong and cogent opposition has meant there has been widespread anger and disillusionment. Trust in local democracy and in the health authorities has been seriously damaged.
This week there are elections both locally in Hampshire and across Europe for the EU. Although Hampshire Against Fluoridation is not politically aligned, John Spottiswoode, Chairperson said: “HAF are happy to work with any political party that opposes water fluoridation and we will actively support individuals with a strong commitment to keep fluoride out of our drinking water. We have had very positive and helpful support from several senior politicians. In particular we would like to commend the following for their active work in the fight against fluoridation:
Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP, who has taken up the fluoridation issue in Europe
Councillors Anna McNair Scott and Alan Dowden of Hampshire County Council who helped gain unanimous opposition to fluoridation from Hampshire Councillors.
Dr Julian Lewis, Conservative MP for New Forest East
Sandra Gidley, Liberal Democrat MP for Romsey
Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh
John Spottiswoode continued: “As water fluoridation is a government policy, it has meant that a misguided politically motivated decision to fluoridate has been made in Southampton . Therefore we need political change and Hampshire Against Fluoridation is willing to work with politicians who strongly oppose fluoridation from across the political spectrum. We will also assist them to replace pro-fluoridation politicians at all levels of government. By working together on this issue and putting party politics to one side, the group hope to join forces with local politicians to focus on the important campaign of keeping our area’s drinking water supply fluoride free.
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For more information please contact:
John Spottiswoode, Hampshire Against Fluoridation
14 Evelyn Crescent , Southampton , SO15 5JE
Email: http://uk.mc867.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=john.spottiswoode@btinternet.com
or by telephone 02380 789230, work mobile: 07500 331900

FLUORIDE, NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY BUT A CONSPIRACY REALITY

I remember during the 1960's being told by assorted Government ministers that the future lay in the development of Nuclear Power We were told that it was wonderful, safe and best of all, "so cheap that it was not worth metering" Even Tony Benn the first Minister of Technology under the Wilson Government recited this mantra. Sadly for Mr Benn, he had been sold a lie. and only in 1979 did he learn that from a senior scientist in the Generating Board, that while he was actually a minister, and unknown to him, plutonium from our civil nuclear power stations was being sent to America for their own military programme. To cut a long story short, not only was nuclear power far from safe, it was also three times as expensive as coal as a means of generating electricity and this did not even include the cost of safe disposal of the radioactive waste or the clean up of contaminated sites. There is still no safe means of disposal to date and there is not even a reasonable estimate of the long terms costs of disposal and clean up. The only thing of any value was in fact the plutonium. True it was deadly and very long lasting but it did make extremely good nuclear bombs and warheads. This gave it great value to the military-industrial boys and all they had to do was tell lots of lies about its safety and value for money. Mr Benn, like you and I was being treated like mushrooms, ie; kept in the dark and fed on shit.

This will sound awfully familiar to those who follow the fluoride and fluoridation story. A toxic bi product, deadly to life and the environment, sold to the population by vested interests under the guise of something beneficial and useful. This shows only that if a lie is shouted loud enough and long enough it becomes the truth or at least orthodoxy which is just another word for gullable idiots or vested interests with much to gain from keeping the mushrooms (you and I) in the dark. Its little wonder that MPs and Ministers in our Government cannot be trusted to claim only those expenses they are legally and morally entitled to, they are so hardened to their wickedness that they wouldnt recognise the truth if it kicked them in the goolies.

I think i will be voting for the Greens in the Local and European Elections this coming Thursday. We have not had many Green candidates in my part of the world so i will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they are not telling lies about abandoning all fluoridation and hope that they keep their expenses claims under a close watch. Clearly we cannot vote for the main parties who still believe in First to the Trough so its got to be whatever reasonable alternatives are available and of the smaller parties, the Greens are the only ones who are not, nutcases or thugs and who know what sustainability actually means.

BRISBANE COCK-UP IS ANOTHER NAIL IN FLUORIDES COFFIN.

Confidence in the safety of fluoride and the technology which delivers it to drinking water supplies appears to have hit a new low in Australia following the news that Brisbane residents, got twenty times the so-called "safe dosage" This was compounded by the fact that it apparently took as long as 12 days to identify the problem and if this was not bad enough, the government was not notified until this week that 300,000 litres of contaminated water were pumped into as many as 4,000 Brisbane homes on the 1st of May.

The plant had been shut down for routine maintenance but for reasons not yet clear, fluoride continued to be pumped into the supply. No doubt Queensland Premier will want to put everyones minds at rest by consuming twenty times her normal amount of water on TV to prove how confident she is of fluoridated waters safety.

Its bad enough that fluoride has no real value and is of course extremely toxic but exposing people to very high levels of the crap is no way to increase confidence.Here in the UK, I have lost count of the number of times that there have been problems with the technology at water treatment works and when large stretched of river have been killed by leaks of chlorine or caustic soda, and Camelford in Devon was poisoned, by aluminium, very strong public opposition should come as no surprise.
The equipment used really is not "fail safe;" more accidents are a certainty and the only way to prevent contamination of drinking water, a precious and dwindling resource, is to make sure that chemicals like fluoride and lunatics like Anna Bligh are never allowed anywhere near our water supplies. This is particularly important in a country like Australia which now seems to be in a permanent state of drought.

UK GOVERNMENT BUILDS FLUORIDE SAFETY ON SAND

FLUORIDATION -- THE END IS NIGH

The end of the road for water fluoridation?

European Court ruling effectively bans water fluoridation, and prohibits all importation of processed food from fluoridated countries.
The European Court has ruled that any food that may also have a medicinal function MUST be regulated as a medicine. And that would include fluoridated water!

The MHRA does not have the power to exercise its discretion - it MUST recognise fluoiridated water as a medicine and subject it to full pharmacological scrutiny. In the meantime, all fluoridation in the UK and Ireland must stop.

Fluoridated water may not be used for processing food, and all export of any food made with it in the UK to other EC states is illegal. So also is the importation into any EC member stateof any processed foodstuff that has been made with fluoridated water - so the entire EC market is closed to firms in fluoridated areas of the USA, Canada Australia, and New Zealand.

Are the highly dubious 'benefits' of fluoridation really worth this price, or is it not time to get rid of this stupid practice world-wide, once and for all?

For more info visit the UKCAF web site.

http://www.ukcaf.org/european_court_ruling_spells_an_end_to_fluoridatio.html

YOU WIN SOME YOU LOSE SOME

Last Tuesday I got a call from the Lancashire Telegraph who wanted to know would I be able to join a panel of professionals in Blackburn on the following Friday to meet Conservative Leader David Cameron. The idea was to have a question and answer session from our varied standpoints. I of course would be able to question Mr Cameron on environmental issues and thought Fluoride would come first and Energy a second or back up question. Opportunities like this don't come along every day so i took the prospect very seriously.

Although Blackburn from here is only twenty something miles it can still be reminiscent of "Across the Andes by Frog" as i know from many past experiences broadcasting from BBC Radio Lancashire and as a good little environmentalist, I don't posses a car and have to rely on busses, trains, taxis and the kindness of motorised friends. It can be a varied assortment of busses or trains and of course like most people, I do know what its like to be sat on a broken down train in the middle of nowhere for an hour or two and I even recall being stuck in a blizzard with a Sunday Times reporter on one ill-fated pollution bashing excursion.

Still, its not every day that opportunities to meet the man who could easily, on current Labour form, be the next prime minister of the UK come along and what better way for Friends of the Earth to establish some kind of rapport. More importantly for me and my colleagues, it would be a golden opportunity to raise the profile of our Fluoridation campaign and stoke up the publicity machine, so after a quick phone round i sorted out transport arrangements with my friend in Bury who was coming to visit me on Friday anyway. It just meant that she had to set off earlier and detour to Blackburn: I called the paper and accepted their invitation.

Next i had to phone some colleagues and discuss tactics and issues and then sit down and work out a concise and informative question for DC which would not only explain some of the important but lesser known issues to him which would also test the water temperature of his support. By the time Friday came round I was fully up to speed with current opinion, and had a cluster of leaflets, magazine articles and copies of my questions in triplicate for the benefit of any interested media. I also had a back up question on the potential for dramatically reducing energy demands and co2 emissions by converting street lighting to LED sources. Little did i know what the fates had in store for me.

My drivers car left Bury with plenty of margin for delay of course but even that was not enough. She spent two hours stationary in Tottington due apparently to a combination of accidents and lane closures on the M66. As a result the place was totally gridlocked, even the side streets were jammed and she could not even go home having travelled only a quarter of a mile. This is the legacy left to us by the lazy sod known as John Prescott, who when elected became Deputy Prime Minister and who proudly said he was going to revolutionise and totally integrate transport in Britain. Perhaps not surprisingly the old lard tube actually did diddly squat. So, traffic remains gridlocked and alternatives remain as mostly theory. Well done New Labour for Nothing At All. Waging illegal Wars based on lies for profit does not get the nation moving and of course introducing illegal toxic waste into our water is not going to cure the problem of dental health when it merely wastes money which should be spent on proper dentistry.

As a footnote i can only draw attention to the fact that old Presser is now loudly supporting Gordy as PM and criticising Fungus Big Ears and Jack Strop for having the temerity to suggest that New Labours Government is introducing absurd policies. These latter of course will be remembered as a brace of Home Secretaries who pushed the ID Cards and DNA Databases so hard and helped give Britain a reputation for being more right wing and reactionary than even the Bush regime in the USA. Fungus was ineffective and Straw was totally useless of course. I got it in writing from Straw that he was opposed to fluoride but for some reason, most probably his normal incompetence, when he joined the government and they forced through fluoridation, not a squeak was heard.

It now appears that the recession and its associated debt mountains will dispose of these latter policies and one can but hope that Fluoride and Fluoridation will finally hit the same buffers. This will be a blessing for our health, our pockets, and the Nations international reputation for common sense. Give me a glass of pure water and I will drink to that.

NEW FLUORIDE VIDEO

NEW DVD: Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation. courtesy of the Fluoride Action Network.

Are you looking for a tool to educate your city councilors, friends, and community about the problems with water fluoridation? Are you looking for a credible, science-based, yet easy-to-understand summary of the issue? If so, than look no further, as Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation was designed for that very purpose.

Featuring a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, three scientists from the National Research Council's landmark review on fluoride, as well as dentists, medical doctors, and leading researchers in the field, this professionally-produced 28-minute DVD presents a powerful indictment of the fluoridation program.

The DVD also includes four special features including Dr. Bill Osmunson's acclaimed statement on fluoride. A great resource for anyone involved in the issue. To order the DVD, click here.



NEW DVD: Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation

Are you looking for a tool to educate your city councilors, friends, and community about the problems with water fluoridation? Are you looking for a credible, science-based, yet easy-to-understand summary of the issue? If so, than look no further, as Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation was designed for that very purpose.

Featuring a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, three scientists from the National Research Council's landmark review on fluoride, as well as dentists, medical doctors, and leading researchers in the field, this professionally-produced 28-minute DVD presents a powerful indictment of the fluoridation program.

The DVD also includes four special features including Dr. Bill Osmunson's acclaimed statement on fluoride. A great resource for anyone involved in the issue. To order the DVD, click here. https://www.createspace.com/260929