Bumbling Biden must forget running again

I HAVE said many times that Joe Biden is senile. He is the leader of the Western world but probably could not tell a nuclear button from his shirt buttons. He forgets names on an industrial scale, he falls over, he muddles up countries and has just evaded being put on trial because a conviction would have been impossible in view of the president’s failing mental faculties. And yet, dear heaven, he is wanting to run again in the US elections. Have the Democrats really got no better candidate?

I am five years younger than Biden and well know that you can forget names as you age (irritatingly, they come back five minutes after you really need them) and that balance can become a bit more precarious.

These days I avoid high heels outdoors and proceed cautiously on slippery surfaces. I no longer do quiz shows which rely solely on speed of retrieval of knowledge.

In my 60s I had the same energy levels as when I coped with all-night sittings in the House of Commons but my 70s are throwing out challenges and that is why I have steadily refused all requests to stand for Reform in the next election.

We all age differently, which makes Hillary Clinton very wrong to say that it is the president’s age as such which is an issue. I know plenty of people who are as sharp as tacks and physically active in their 90s let alone their 80s.

THE issue is how he is ageing and the simple fact is that he is declining in both physical and mental health so quickly that he is not fit for office even now, never mind for another term. It is time for his family to step in and to tell him what he might dismiss when uttered by political opponents or rivals for the presidency: he is past it.To let him carry on is to betray him as well as the USA.

Donald Trump is pro-British, pro-Brexit and pro-life which is why I have in the past wished him well but his pronouncements on Nato are terrifying in what is a very unstable world and his reaction to his defeat last time was well-nigh deranged.

What a ghastly choice America has!

There is still time, just about, to find a sensible candidate and that should be a united aim regardless of tribal loyalties.