Dear

I am contacting you to ask you to sign Andrew Mackinlay’s Early Day Motion number 708, asking for the Westminster Government to defer the Cancellation of the Reciprocal Health Agreement between the UK and the Isle of Man, which takes effect from the 31^st March 2010. I feel that this decision was unfair to the members of both societies, and in particular the elderly and sick who may find it difficult if not impossible to get travel insurance. The Isle of Man has many links with the UK, historically and economically. To class the Isle of Man and its people as foreign is unacceptable. The Isle of Man puts some £8 million into the Westminster health budget for elective surgery, and to stop the agreement to save £2.9 million (0.028%) of the Health  budget seems absurd.

There is also the fact that the Isle of Man was the only Crown Dependency to operate conscription in conjunction with the UK for all until 1960, and to remove this agreement from all those who fought for His/Her Majesties forces, in defence of all these Islands is an insult to them.

As pointed out in the Early Day Motion it is also unconstitutional as this decision was taken without consultation to Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales and it affects all the residents, nor was it put before the Westminster Parliament.

I thank you for your time,