Oh gosh there is a lot about the NHS and this election. Is it safe in their hands or not. Most will know that over the past few years the NHS has looked after me very well with my lymphoma cancer treatment and maintenance programme, the cataract as a result of the high steroid doses in Chemotherapy and then after years of waiting my replacement knees. Probably under the new regime I would still be able to see from one eye so that was 50% and good enough and I am sure that I would be too fat for knees. I wonder do they have a plastic template like the Post Office for measuring letters? “Sorry Mr Mackett, you failed to squeeze through the gap so we recommend that you learn to crawl again.”

Here in Somerset the NHS does us proud, watching the care my 90 year old neighbour got recently when he had a chest infection, both in hospital and in the follow up clinics and support.

This weekend has been a little traumatic as Jun was very poorly on Saturday night when I came back from the Radio Station. For nearly two hours the NHS gave us support, and reassurance when I rang 111, they checked up later that all was okay, a doctor rang to check up early in the morning to reassure and make sure we were okay, He referred us back to the local practice who saw Jun early today, lots of reassurance and precautionary tests have started. You cannot fault it, it is brilliant, outstanding. If you are worried that Jun as a foreign national has become an NHS tourist, I have to reassure you that we paid a lot of money as part of her last visa to the NHS, before the paperwork could be started. So we are upfront on this.

When it comes to the election, I do not care who you vote for. What you need to say to the candidate who becomes your MP is tinker with our NHS at your peril. Send them back to parliament, conservative, green, labour, liberal or UKIP, but make sure they are aware that they play around with the most precious thing in UK at their peril.