SOME years ago this paper kindly published my letter warning about the NHS messing about with children’s gender at the Tavistock clinic.. Only now has the NHS child gender service been exposed as a state funded assault on vulnerable children, and been closed down. While the Tavistock flourished, our MP Steve Brine was PPS to the Health Secretary, and then Under Secretary for Public Health. He described himself as “enjoying” his time at health while the rot at the Tavistock prospered under his nose.

In his most recent Letter from Westminster, Steve lauds the net zero targets, claiming economic growth and saying that Rishi Sunak ‘has a firm grip on the detail of how we reasonably get there’. If only Steve and Rishi would share their economic analysis, for government minister Kemi Badenoch says it is ‘wrong of us to set the target without having a clear plan of the cost and knowing what it would entail’. She goes on to say that the result will be economic disablement and increased poverty.

So does our wannabe PM Rishi ‘have a firm grip on the detail’ (unpublished), or is he something else? His proposed £10 fine for an NHS no-show is an example of the ham-fisted over regulation and micro management that the Nation needs to escape from. The flip-flopping on tax is extraordinary. He voted for Brexit but supported Theresa May’s Brexit in Name Only, leaving me with the impression of a closet Remainer. I can find little evidence of his political philosophy either as an Investment Banker or as an MP. Quite what he believes in other than his own career remains a mystery, at least to me. And this is MP Steve’s preferred candidate?

Undoubted our MP is a decent man, who sadly comes over to me as being out of his depth for the job requirement.

James Anderson,

Wrights Close,

South Wonston

 

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