Boris’s speech was just plain boring

HAVING listened to the PM’s party conference speech I can only say how disappointed I was to hear it. It was the most boring speech I have ever heard and certainly doesn’t inspire anybody.

For instance, he should have begun with a declaration that we are coming to the end of a very difficult two years and then go on to list some of the improvements the Government was going to make and how they were going to reduce our ERM loans. All he did was to rant on about the difficulties which we all knew already about.

Surely, he should have begun by stating the current financial problems and go on the list how the Government was going to improve them.

Firstly, what have we learnt from the lockdown and what lessons have been learnt from it? Do people want to return to previous long journeys to the office every day, not to mention the cost to the people and the environment, when they can stay at home and work on the computer network? Why has everything got to be in London?

The one advantage has been is that married women have been able to work from home and enjoy their families.

The reduction in pollution – the Government still keeps ‘banging on’ about global warming and yet now all the traffic has been reduced, why not look at ways of keeping it that way?

Why not begin by reopening closed local railway lines and bring people back to using the railway? Why not expand local airports so that people do not have to travel to the London airports? Just think of the number of cars that will not have to travel down from the north of the country as well as from the South West every year.

Why not also review the welfare benefits? How many people have never worked because they are better off staying home?

What happened to the days when a married woman never admitted that her husband could not keep her so she had to go out to work to pay the bills?

As for the Single Parent Allowance, if it was paid to the father rather than the mother there would be a sudden rush of men coming forward to pay maintenance and we would not have to keep the mother and her child, many of whom do not want to get married but are hoping to get a council house.

We need reform in a big way and now is the time to make it.

Mrs A Earl

Bristol