Andrew George
Promoting the
Politics of Courage
I’m running a positive campaign to restore decency and honesty to our politics. To build a brighter future. To combat those who want us to become more inward-looking, backward-looking, more self-absorbed. I’ll build a campaign for an outward-looking, forward-looking and compassionate country.
We’ve been misled by a privileged clique who’ve irresponsibly played on fears to stoke prejudice. We must get beyond the Brexit chaos they’ve dragged our country into. We must restore the things that matter for the sake of our children’s future – our NHS, our schools and the very sustainability of our planet.
Come and join a growing campaign team. We’re determined to win this seat back this time, to make the difference, to build a brighter future.
Many people say “you politicians are all the same”. That statement has never been more untrue. The choice here is stark:
Andrew George - Standing up for Cornwall
National campaigner, local campaigner, former MP.
Andrew describes his role - "Seeking out the silent voices. Standing up to bullies. Fighting for justice”
Liberal Democrats - Building a brighter future
We can restore our NHS if we pull together. It won’t be easy. The Conservatives have seriously undermined it. Each year, there are hundreds of avoidable deaths in Cornwall, caused by excessive ambulance queues and emergency delays. A new hospital ward of ambulances is almost permanently parked outside Treliske…
There’s little prospect our NHS can recover while Conservatives cling to power. Of course, we welcome the start on a new £10 million Outpatients building at West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance. The present building clearly isn’t fit for purpose. However, there is no plan that outpatient clinics lost in recent years will be replaced, nor clinics added; which suggests it has got more to do with the Conservatives using public money to cling onto this marginal seat. Though it also demonstrates the benefit of not voting Tory.
Conservatives voted against my efforts to investigate the night closure of Penzance hospital’s Urgent Treatment Centre. If the UTC were operating 24/7 and with medical, diagnostic and ambulance back-up it would help to relieve some of the strain on Treliske. And we’d be a long way along the road to addressing the crisis in emergency care here.
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My thoughts have been with the families, friends and colleagues of those caught up in the atrocities in Gaza. That one of our own local men has so very tragically lost his life simply because he wanted to help others who desperately need the humanitarian aid he was bravely helping to provide, reinforces just how misguided the revenge-driven bloodlust of Israel's far-right government is.
If this is how clearly marked humanitarian aid workers are murdered by this regime, we know how the 34,000+ Palestinians - mostly women and children - have lost their lives. Israel government propagandists are granted excessive media time to dishonestly pretend to the world their actions are "proportionate" and "measured", and that innocent people will be helped to stay "out of harms' way".
Our PM gleefully shook hands with Netanyahu and said he wanted him "to win", as if it were a game of sport. He has firmly resisted calls for a permanent ceasefire and refuses to end arms supplies to Israel. He shames the UK, ...and has blood on his hands.
I see James Henderson's family has commented:
“On behalf of the Henderson family, James’s brother, who declined to be named, told The Times: “Accountability is the only hope of justice I have … I don’t believe our government will hold the correct people to account, but I guarantee that our government will sell weapons to Israel, which may in turn be used to kill our fellow citizens. It’s hard to comprehend that.”
He added: “I feel this is inexcusable behaviour, to kill my brother and his colleagues on a humanitarian mission. Our thoughts are with the suffering people who have been deprived of basic humanitarian needs. It’s unacceptable for our world leaders to ignore this gross miscarriage of justice.”
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Conservatives believe "Homelessness is a lifestyle choice".
Government ministers should address the causes of homelessness. Not scapegoat the victims
But the government's Criminal Justice Bill proposes to criminalise homelessness. Even many of their backbench MPs have now woken up to realisation that this will merely increase the chance they'll lose their seats at the impending general election. Some are now rebelling in the hope it will save their skin.
Sleeping rough is not "a lifestyle choice". Conservatives should focus on understanding and then tackling the root causes.
Liberal Democrats called on government ministers to reverse these plans. It would effectively reintroduce the Vagrancy Act by the back door. Something the Liberal Democrats played a pivotal role in scrapping two years ago.
It seems inevitable the government will have to back down. To press on would drive this government to even lower depths of unpopularity, if that is possible. Even backbench Tory MPs fearful of losing their seats are disowning policy they were previously happy to back.
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Remarkable scenes as 4 brave crew from Penlee lifeboat freed humpback whale "Ivy" from entanglement in fishing gear in rough seas off our coast yesterday.
Enormous respect and admiration to our lifeboat crews who save lives, not only of humans; and the British Divers Marine Life Rescue and others who took part.
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Only political change will end this sewage scandal
Sewage Companies must be forced to invest in clean-up, not giveaway top exec bonuses and shareholder dividends.
Figures released by the Environment Agency today show that South West Water nearly doubled raw sewage discharges in the last year - from 290,271 hours in 2022 to 530,737 hrs last year.
Liberal Democrats are committed to taking tough action against sewage dumping in local rivers/beaches, replacing Ofwat with a more effective regulator, installing an independent community environmental champion on every Board, converting companies to community benefit societies and banning exec bonuses.
Conservative MPs have sought to excuse water companies and believe it's acceptable for the discharges to continue. All Conservative MPs representing Cornwall's constituencies have consistently voted against measures which would have helped to tackle the crisis.
Since the Conservatives created these privatised water companies over £74 billion has been paid out to top execs and shareholders. If even half of this were instead invested in treatment and attenuation infrastructure these problems would barely exist. New housing developments are required to build in infrastructure to ensure each estate can manage up to a 1 in 100 year rainfall event on site - in their SuDS design (Surface Water/Sustainable Urban Drainage System). The least SWW and other companies can do is to at least match this with the massive monopoly income receive each year.
SWW promised us a "Clean Sweep". What we need is a "clean sweep” to rid us of Conservative MPs so that we can get on with sorting this out and the many other problems they've created or presided over.
Surfers Against Sewage Fergal Sharkey
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