‘Flip-flopper’ May leading us nowhere

I AM currently in France where I have a property and where people are astounded at the antics of the UK government. Why do they argue among themselves when they should be arguing with Brussels, they say! The rest of my time is spent in Roundhay and enjoying the Yorkshire Dales. France has nothing to compare with that.

Tom Richmond’s columns are excellent and hit hard. Yes, one wonders how an incompetent like Chris Grayling continues to survive (The Yorkshire Post, March 7), yet I do not think that I have ever seen a more incompetent PM or government.

One had high hopes of Theresa May, but she has proved to be a “flip-flopper” and cannot give a straight answer to anything. The Home Secretary has spotted the fault line. Police numbers cut, cut and cut again by Mrs May, hence the current situation with crime. As a retired officer of 30plus years, and a criminologist, one sees an absence of uniforms of the streets and police stations closed. The current chief officers are steeped in politics and have become nodding donkeys.

On Brexit, I think most have spotted the cynical running down of the clock by Mrs May, as she was a Remainer and is heading for a no deal. At the beginning of this week the A16 and A26 autoroutes leading to Dunkirk and Calais had seven kilometres of queues due to the “work to rule” of French customs. This is what the future holds.

Democracy seems to be gone. The people of this country voted to leave. Now we have a bunch of people almost unemployable outside Parliament who are saying they will decide what is to be done and ignore the will of the people. It is little wonder that a few voices are beginning to say “Can the other side (Labour) do better?”

Heaven help us if that happens when Jeremy Corbyn thought Venezuela was a beacon of socialism!

Keep it up please.