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UK Against Fluoridation

Saturday, January 30, 2010

UK - Daily Echo letters

A poll was good enough for Mancunians. Why not us?
I, like many others would like to see a referendum on the subject, this would establish once and for all how much opposition or acceptance of fluoride in our water system there is.
The referendum would only be for people in the catchment area, namely Southampton, Eastleigh, Totton, Netley and Rownhams, and when this referendum does take place, all schools within the. catchment area would have a vote on this subject as fluoride added to our water is aimed at the children not us adults.
Now our Southampton MPs Mr John Denham and Mr Alan Whitehead agree with the principle of adding fluoride to water supplies, but both are none too happy with a referendum citing problems about getting a bill through Parliament, setting a precedent, and all other manner of excuses. Well Messrs Denham and Whitehead, I'll let you know that a precedent has been set. During the early part of 2009 a referendum was held in Manchester.
The citizens of Manchester had a referendum on the congestion charges the council were about to introduce. What's good enough for the citizens of Manchester surely is good enough for the citizens of Southampton and surrounding district. Mancunians voted on the prospect of paying money to drive into Manchester. The voted against having the congestion charge imposed upon them, whereas the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) intend to impose fluoridation of our water supplies onto us without a referendum.
So come on Messrs Denham and Whitehead surely you can set the wheels in motion to get a referendum up and running, and if you are too busy, then maybe New Forest East MP Julian Lewis, Eastleigh's Chris Huhne and Romsey and Southampton North's Sandra Gidley could step into the breach and organise a referendum and let's not forget the children who it's aimed at can also vote at their schools.

REPEATING the call for a referendum on fluoridation (Daily Echo, Jan 21) misses the most essential point. What is needed is a clear declaration that using our water supply for random mass-medication is both wrong and illegal. The public would like to know to what extent MPs and other public figures have been or expect to be rewarded for promoting fluoride. MR G PAYNE, Southampton.

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