Bootham Park Hospital future sparks funding debate in York

RACHAEL Maskell is blinded by her rigid political ideology when she calls for Bootham Park Hospital to remain in public hands irrespective of practical reality or financial limitations.

If a public body with the resources of the NHS is not able to fund the enormous cost of repair and maintenance of that Grade 1 listed structure how on earth does she expect some other public entity to find another beneficial use that doesn’t drain yet more taxpayers’ money at a time of serious budget deficits at both local and national level?

In calling for “a coalition of the willing” to come together to keep the property in public ownership, simply for the sake of it, the Labour MP for York Central is showing her blinkered political prejudice of “four legs good, two legs bad” as demonstrated by George Orwell in his allegorical story Animal Farm.

Matthew Laverack,

Lord Mayors Walk,

York

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