BIG PICTURE
November.
To be clear.
I stated that free school meals were a form of welfare conditionality that treat poor parents as if they are not capable of making good decisions and, for this reason, they are not a good policy intervention.
I appreciate that misconstruing and attacking might work well between the different factions within the Labour party.
But can I suggest to Cllr Barber, it is probably best not to try it with ordinary members of the public. Dr Chris O’Leary
Heild End Farm Nr Wildboarclough
BORIS RIGHT TO END SAGA
BORIS Johnson is absolutely right to draw a line under the
Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain saga that has so badly damaged government relations.
I’ve been praying for wisdom and strength for our Prime Minister and he has shown it. Praise the Lord.
The Covid vaccines are also answers to prayer brought about by a period of Christian grace. With prayers for Brexit answered too all Boris has to do now is bring all wings of the Conservative party back together under a broad church with new faces and a youthful Cabinet and he will be able to push the reset button with Allegra Stratton and the daily briefings and the man who my dog is so famously named after will be back by popular demand.
May the Lord richly bless Boris Johnson. Geoffrey Brooking via email
THIS month, voters chose Democrat Joe Biden to take over as 46th President of the USA.
At the time of writing, Donald Trump is still refusing to concede defeat, but this was a major blow to the truth-denying, divisive populism that he represented.
This represents a victory not just for the USA but for the whole world - a chance to bring decency and generosity to politics and rise together to the climate emergency.
Boris Johnson has now lost his soul-mate on the other side of the Atlantic.
In the face of a major pandemic, an economic crisis and climate emergency, people want leadership that brings us together to tackle those challenges in a way that respects and follows science and takes action with the urgency required.
Johnson has a lot of catching up to do, not only to build bridges with the Biden administration, but to start to show some of the global leadership on climate that he frequently boasts of, but has yet to deliver.
Instead, we have witnessed the spectacle last week of his senior Downing Street advisor being shown the door - but only eight months after blatantly flouting Covid lockdown restrictions - following on the heels of his Director of Communications.
The election of Joe Biden is being heralded as a positive move in the fight against climate change. He has vowed to rejoin the Paris climate agreement - repudiated by Donald Trump - in which countries pledged to commit to combatting climate change and to “accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future”.
The Paris Agreement brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.