SUNDAY brought the opening salvo in what I believe will be an early General Election, as the Prime Minister delivered her first interview on Sky.

It was heavily loaded with manifesto style statements to be followed up with even more at the start of the working week.

Rhetoric is not in short supply, unlike hospital beds. We have a great many issues to solve; not least the NHS.

We need to stop and take a rational and unemotional look at the whole problem.

A working long term solution must be arrived at – more money is not the only requirement.

The NHS is a Rolls Royce with a duff clutch resulting in the vehicle going nowhere fast.

Chris Gallacher, Ukip Redcar