Stop arguing and get on with running the country

“This is an unprecedented incident. In my 29 years of being a firefighter, I have never, ever seen anything of this scale” THE current behaviour of our rulers reminds me of the time friends asked us to tow their broken down car from Shepley to a town centre garage.

We set off with the male contingent in the tow-car, and the female pair in the busted one.

All went fairly well the length of Wakefield Road, until the tow-rope went ping as we entered the roundabout where you hit the ring road. We were left bunging up traffic in all possible directions, in the middle of the evening rush-hour.

The owner of the wreck responded by leaping out of the car with a yell of “What I want to know is, whose fault was it?” and began to argue about whether the silly girls had braked, the driver accelerated, the towrope had been faulty or the knot badly tied ... whilst jumping up and down in the middle of half a dozen roads, with traffic backing up to Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Sheffield and points South all around us.

We were not popular, and finally exasperated commuters came and pushed us out of the way.

I hope our dear leaders will stop bickering about whose fault everything is, shove the broken down election on to a forecourt, and let people get on with where we need to go.

It’s kind of urgent.