Daily Echo - Consider fluoride when you're voting

Consider fluoride when you're voting
THREE years ago the Rt Hon John Denham MP, Southampton's elected Parliamentary representative was, in his puppet ministerial position to Gordon Brown, fully in agreement and instigator of adding fluoride into Southampton's water supply. A governmental excuse for the extreme lack of proper NHS dental facilities.
Sodium fluoride is a highly toxic non-biodegradable industrial waste product, the main ingredient of rat poison which is forbidden by law to be deposited in landfill sites or the sea.
Medical research in countries throughout the world has shown that fluoride in the drinking water has resulted in an increase of diseases. Amongst them such developmental disturbances in bones as osteosclerosis, spndylosis and osteoporosis.
In 1984 Japanese research (Dr Taketi Tsutsui) found that fluoride added to water at a ratio of one part fluoride per million parts water caused cancer in cells. In 1989 the US National Toxicology Program found a significant increase of osteosarcoma - bone cancer. Alarmingly the same ratio is recommended by John Denham MP
Despite his recent pandering to the people of Southampton he is still in full agreement of adding fluoride into the drinking water supply. I doubt that because the Government has in place a quango of unelected members namely the Strategic Health Authority which is empowered to over-rule any vote or decision taken, democratic or otherwise.
I sincerely hope that the good citizens of Southampton consider very long and carefully whom they decide to be their future Parliamentary representative in the coming General Election.
JOHN HAYWARD, Southampton.