‘Theresa May lacks any empathy for the suffering of others’
THE day after I write this letter, the Prime Minister will make her rallying speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester to the Tory faithful.
One commentator in a newspaper today said that it needed to be the speech of her life if her time as party leader were to continue much longer.
I have to confess that Theresa May does not inspire me, nor do I think she ever will. She lacks empathy for the suffering of others.
In the Syrian civil war, for example, where half a million people have died, she has shown little tangible sympathy for those feeling the terror of that conflict.
Compare her record on giving sanctuary to these refugees with that of the German Chancellor.
Our leader let a small quota into Britain and the German leader welcomed a million of them, in one year alone.
Angela Merkel is clearly governed in her politics by conviction, even when the chosen path is a difficult and dangerous one.
Contrast her approach to politics with Mrs May, who was supposedly a Remainer and, then when it suited her own ambitions, suddenly became a staunch Brexiteer.
The Prime Minister has reduced the European Union to an immigration and trade dealing entity, an approach entirely in keeping with her shallow take on all things most precious in life. She reminds me very much of others on the extreme right of the Conservative Party, who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
We should remind ourselves that the purpose of the European Union is, first and foremost, about peace and stability.
Mrs May thinks that the trade and prosperity which stems from this happy state of affairs can be had without a union. This flies in the face of all we have learned from history and two world wars.
An enlarged European Union is simply about bringing increased trade and prosperity to Eastern Europe and keeping those nations out of the clutches of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
The annexation of Crimea from Ukraine is a case in point.
Over half of Stockport opposed Brexit. We should continue to oppose it for the peace and stability of the entire world.
John Tyers
Marple