MP’S silence is deafening to all
ISN’T it about time that our MP Sarah Dines addressed some key political issues in her regular column?
Each week she serves us up with the same diet of anodyne subjects.
No one disputes the importance of local businesses, carers, farming, shops etc, and anyone who has been around Ashbourne for longer than she has does not need telling about how crucial these are.
Even when talking about “Partygate” last week she simply repeated the Government’s line that we’ve heard countless times.
She must be one of only a few people in Derbyshire Dales still believing Boris’s discredited messages.
Over the p ast months we have been inundated with major issues and controversies: climate change and COP26; the dire state of social care; unprecedented pressures on hospital emergency services; the debacle in exiting Afghanistan; the refugee crisis; the problems in Northern Ireland as a result of the Brexit deal; the trip to Barnard Castle [by Dominic Cummings]; the awarding of £1.6 billion’s worth of Covid contracts to friends of Tory MPS; and of course Partygate; it is sleaze and sleaze again; and now the introduction of Plan B...
I could go on... and on. Yet not a word from our MP to tell us what she is thinking.
Doesn’t she want to raise these issues in case some of her voters start to question their loyalty?
As a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Boris Johnson, she must be in a good position to know about and be able to defend at least some of the things done in her Government’s name. Yet we hear nothing.
She is using her large majority to take us for granted and it’s about time she treated her constituents like grown-ups.
Roslyn Hope Via email