HARLOW’S Conservative MP is treating residents like fools when he says that the delays in the new hospital, which I still have serious doubts we will ever see, are due solely to the pandemic, and then in the next sentence admits that there are planning issues says Harlow Labour leader Chris Vince.

Councillor Vince goes on to say “Mr Halfon spent at least his last three general elections promising this new hospital for Harlow, long before the pandemic.  He’s obviously got the same crystal ball that the Essex County Council had when they started the ‘managed decline of our roads’ some ten years before the cost-of-living crisis that they are blaming it on. 

Mr Halfon recognises the issues of rises in living costs, rises in food and fuel, but instead of focusing on these issues his government is spending billions of pounds on white elephants rather than what people really needs.  He’s also air brushed out of history the fact that the majority of the issues he has raised were caused by his government’s disastrous handling of the economy.

Mr Halfon then talks about the importance of lowering the national debt and lowering inflation.  Two things, that despite his Government’s devastating cuts agenda, have both risen since they came to office.  In fact, the only Government to bring down the national debt since the second world war was a Labour government.

Finally, his comments on his friend, the Prime Minister, are laughable.  He described Sunak as having integrity.  Why then is he refusing to sack a party chair who has lied to the British people and dodged his taxes?

He’s also propping up Dominic Raab who now has over 20 complaints of bullying civil servants to his name.

“The Conservative Government have let down Harlow for too long.  The next Labour government will give back power to communities like Harlow, and focus on long term solutions to the problems that people face, rather than sticking plaster politics and worse still, putting their friends first and the country second”.