In what must rank as one of the worst insults to the Kirkby community, a health quango suggests they should now to go to Huyton if they want use an NHS walk- in centre.

The Knowsley Primary Care Trust is leafleting homes in the Northwood area inviting them to use a new walk- in centre built in, you've guessed, err… Huyton.

With a non existent bus service to cover the six mile journey between Kirkby and Huyton maybe the Council and NHS bosses think the sick and ill in Kirkby who need health treatment should stand and thumb a lift near the M57 motorway to get across to Huyton.

We would beg the question to the NHS bosses, and the absurd Council leader Round, would you dare leaflet Bowring Park in Huyton and invite those good people to trek across to Northwood Kirkby to use a NHS walk in centre? We think we all know the answer to this one! So why are the people of Kirkby treated with such contempt?

The answer lies with the self serving new labourite rabble, who have sold out Kirkby time and time again.

This also includes the nondescript MP Howarth, who has hopefully done us all a favour and made a final vanishing act from Kirkby.

The Chairman of the Primary Care Trust is we are told a member of the British aristocracy, related to Britain's richest blue blood the Duke of Westminster. It's further revealed she resides in a des res near the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. Is this what Blair had in mind when his government patronisingly promised local people would lead the delivery of local services? We challenge new labour to explain this act of deceit on the Kirkby community, and await a response.

Blair brazenly governs Britain like it was run two hundred years ago, when the rich and powerful, the privileged and well connected controlled everything.

We also hear the direct hourly bus service from Kirkby to St Helens has been withdrawn without notice to libraries, Post Offices, etc. The two buses now needed to get to St Helens are both half hourly services, with a long journey time, and if you're lucky enough to catch the connections, cost you £5. 70p in fare, there and back. Kirkby is also joined with St Helens for health services, inconvenient? It's only Kirkby they say.

Concerned friends of the ex Cllr P Fisher tell us the vicious and deeply personal campaign against him by MPs Howarth, O'Hara, and Keight (all from Huyton) was aimed at blocking him taking over the NHS Primary Care Trust. And at a time when he had lost to close family members. This says it all about the evil of new labour.

It cleared the way for a well connected aristocratic woman to lead the local NHS. This despite the fact she did not live in the area, which is apparently a key qualification for the post holder.

But this is vintage new labour sleaze, and rotten to the core.

The Kirkby Times was told that Fisher started the whole health strategy in Knowsley and Kirkby years ago, and would never have allowed Kirkby to be treated in this disgraceful manner

Whether we have general or local elections next year, the Kirkby people have it in their own hands to put an end to this putrid state of affairs