IT IS good news that Dr Helen Salisbury is standing for the National Health Action party in Oxford West and Abingdon.

The two parties which came first and second in that seat at the 2010 general election are now in coalition. A vote for either the Liberals or Conservatives may well be a wasted vote. What difference does it make whether the seat is won by a Conservative or a Liberal in 2015?

In contrast, votes for Dr Salisbury would show support for the NHS in the clearest way possible in a seat Labour cannot win. The British parliamentary voting system results in most voters in most areas not being represented by an MP of their choosing; but it does allow you to express your views in other ways.

Danny Dorling
Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Professor of Geography

 

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