Dear Sir,
You have to have some sympathy for our current Conservative MP, Mr Paul Howell. Having followed his leader into the “nae” lobby to vote against the continuation of free school meals for disadvantaged children outside of term time, he wakes up on Sunday morning to find that the very person who shoe-horned him through that lobby, Boris Johnson, has changed his mind and said that the free meals will continue. How Mr. Howell must feel is anyone’s guess but frustrated may be one description.
This does, however, offer another example of how weak this Prime Minister is. Not only in the fact that he cannot make a decision but also the fact that he cannot empathise with people who are less fortunate than he and understand that this change of heart should never have been necessary.
This is the man who, in September, announced that he was struggling to cope on his PM’s salary of £150,403 plus benefits (lots of those), especially since he now has another mouth to feed.
The King of the U-turns has struck again.
Executing so many U-turns by definition means that you’re going around in circles. This exactly describes the direction this Government is taking our country. The best summary; up the creek without the proverbial paddle.
Stephen Braithwaite
