From: Joy Warren

From: Joy Warren   Sent: 14 September 2018  Subject: Re: Northern Echo fluoride article.

It's looking serious.  PHE is having a group hug in Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on 19th September where we have to assume that they will be planning strategy to overcome opposition for fluoridating the entire North East.  Middlesborough is now caught up in this and we can expect Stockton on Tees to also get involved.  I'm hoping to get more information on Monday.

We're low on anti-fluoridationists in the North East and I am not too sure how we can rally our resources.   If the public consultation is handled as one exercise, then we have little hope of getting people throughout the threatened area to become galvanised into action.  In other words, it's too great an area for us to tackle.  This is entirely unlike Southampton where Hampshire County Council declared against WF and Southampton followed suite eventually.  

All we can do at the moment is to send all councillors up-to-date information and hope that commonsense will prevail.  However, the fossilised policy and power of PHE is overwhelming. 

Here are some abbreviated bitly url links to three utube videos which are required viewing.  Can you circulate them to your email list and ask that people tweet them or email them to other people, especially in the North East.     https://bit.ly/2xjWqay      https://bit.ly/2xoKgNZ     https://bit.ly/2CYiw8R