Update on correspondence with my MP about Ebola. Thank you for this Sophie. I accept his apologies for not having got back to me soon and I do appreciate that he receives hundreds of emails per day. Id like a personal response. With another day having elapsed and having read some news Im now more confident than ever that the points Ive made in my earlier email are beginning to be substantiated. Notably that a) we are utterly ill-equipped for such an outbreak b) the so-called screening process is nothing other than a cosmetic exercise designed to assuage panic amongst the less educated masses c) Ive yet to be given any reason whatsoever why people need to travel to our country via other countries from the currently infected areas. My understanding of basic economics and commerce tell me that we have very little business to do with these nations and I have yet to receive an explanation as to why we simply cannot close our doors. I simply want my MP to be bold and aggressive, to corral the support of his fellow members of Parliament and to ensure that what needs to get done gets done before it is too late. We all know that chicken licken was ridiculed for thinking that the sky was going to fall down and I understand why nobody in politics wants to be castigated and isolated for being a chicken licken but that is an unacceptable response to a hideous situation from our elected representatives. Ebola has the potential to become the single largest crisis to hit this planet since World War II and the genteel discussion in the house and warming multi-party support of the current measures being taken is simply patronising of the general public more to the point criminally insouciant. Get Ale From: CARTER, Sophie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 14 October 2014 13:59 To: Jonathan Graham Subject: RE: Ebola Dear Mr Graham, Alec has asked me to get in contact with you to offer his apologies for not being able to get back to your sooner. As you can appreciate, he receives hundreds of emails per day and although he had acted on your comments, he is yet to compile a personal response to you. In the meantime, I would just like to let you know that he passed on your comments about this important issue yesterday before the Urgent Ministerial Statement on Ebola. Alec has asked that I include the link below to the transcript of yesterday’s Statement which outlines the Government’s approach to Ebola: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm141013/debtext/141013-0001.htm#14101312000002 If you would like Alec to respond to your personally please could you respond to this email with your home postal address? Many thanks, Sophie Carter Sophie Carter Parliamentary Researcher for Alec Shelbrooke MP Member of Parliament for Elmet and Rothwell From: Jonathan Graham [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 14 October 2014 12:26 To: SHELBROOKE, Alec Subject: FW: Ebola Hi I don’t appear to have a response from you regarding my email that I sent on Sunday. Please could you let me know your thoughts on the matter. Thanks JG From: Jonathan Graham Sent: 12 October 2014 15:01 To: [email protected] Subject: Ebola Hi I am deeply concerned about the response of the current government to the Ebola crisis in West Africa. The plight of these people and their countries is truly horrific. It is the nightmarish stuff of science fiction films. I am glad that as a nation we are sending aid. I am not glad and not at all satisfied that as a nation we are still allowing visitors into this country from those nations. Screening at airports is a cosmetic gesture that is patronising of the general public and its fears at best. I cannot for one minute fathom that we have any form of important business to conclude face to face with people of such impoverished countries and there is no need whatsoever for them to “visit” until the host nations with the help of our aid and financial support have got the situation FULLY under control. My concern is firstly the needless futile loss of British Lives borne of political correctness, ineptitude and indecision coupled with the return to economic recession that an Ebola outbreak in such a densely populated environment will bring about. I do not for one minute subscribe to what appears to have become an acceptable notion that we’ll have a “little outbreak” but we’re equipped to bring it under control. Imagine an infected and sick individual on the London underground….. This is a problem of epic proportion and it can be solved easily - close our borders to Africa and its people. Today. Right now. I hope as my MP you can act as a voice in parliament on the matter.
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