Now is the time for you to have your say. Notts Police have cut police numbers and closed the Worksop police cells. Local police are up in arms against this nonsense. Notts Fire has employed expensive consultants to smooth through their cuts- Only one person turned up at their Worksop consultation this week. The hospital continues to refuse to guarantee childrens services and a full Accident and Emergency.

Meanwhile the top police who dreamed up the cuts have received a bonus for making the cuts; the Fire service pays fancy consultants and we all now know what games the people running the Doncaster hospital Trust get up to. They still haven’t answered the damning evidence from the national stroke sentinel service, but they are prepared to shout a lot about car parking.

I think that you deserve a say and with support from the Community Union with printing costs, I am pleased to announce that there will be a full ballot of all Bassetlaw residents on these changes. I have a ballot booklet at the printers right now and I need volunteers to help distribute it.

To help, my staff have divided Bassetlaw up into 220 delivery rounds, each comprising around 300 households and taking perhaps two hours to deliver. Are there 220 people good and true out there prepared to deliver one of these rounds? If so please volunteer, by calling in my office on 01909 506200 or by emailing to mannj@parliament.uk.

For those whose legs are not quite what they once were I also need volunteers to bag up the delivery rounds in my office.

Enough is enough. We all know that there have to be some cuts and some inconvenience from these cuts. If there are no more colour brochures; fewer top managers; no cars provided; less counter hour opening; delayed investments then so be it.  If the Government has to change course and cut overseas aid to China, British army bases in Germany and the subsidy to Crossrail then I would welcome this. I can live with a 50% higher tax rate and mergers of government departments and unitary local authorities. We can then have a good argument about other priorities and expenditure.

But it is a nonsense to cut our police locally, our fire service locally and our Bassetlaw Hospital.

Like our local authority care homes we need these vital local services and I am not going to stand by merely spouting off in Parliament - though I will continue to have my say whether I am listened to or not.

This is about the security and quality of our everyday lives and these cuts put me and my family at risk and I believe they do for you and your family.

I am calling for a huge response to show the powers that be, in Doncaster, Nottingham and London that we do not accept this attack on our 999 emergency services. It’s about time someone stood up and fought back.