Our overloaded justice system can expect to see many more concerned banner-waving pensioners threatened with criminal records while war criminals remain free.
This week’s Parliamentary turmoil has seen yet another damaging u-turn by the Government - the latest in a series of benefit-related blunders that have undermined and pushed an increasingly disillusioned electorate towards the embrace of the far-right.
In my combined total of over 50 years as a County and District Councillor I’ve learned that whatever you want to achieve for those who elected you, it is always slower, more expensive and more difficult than you hoped.
This year’s VE day commemoration is particularly poignant. Not just because it is the last major anniversary when any significant number of combatants will be with us, but because so much of what their generation fought and died for seems under threat.
Pay the blackmailer, the playground bully, the social media ‘sexting’ intimidator, the narcissistic wannabe dictator, and they will keep coming back for more.
Labour and Conservatives seem mesmerised by the threat of Reform! and terrified of upsetting the USA. My only hope is, that when the President threatens sanctions, Mr Starmer stands up to him.
