‘Most local Tory MPS are silent’

I NOTICED that most of North Stafffordshire’s Tory MPS, with the notable exception of Karen Bradley, have not deigned to comment on Dominic Cummings’s unique approach to eye-testing by taking a piece of lethal heavy machinery out on the public roads.

Instead they metaphorically cower in shell holes, tin hats firmly strapped on, as the high explosive shells of public opprobrium explode all around them.

Perhaps they feel that their chances of advancement will be damaged if they even whisper their doubts about an action that so comprehensively undermines the public health advice to counter the spread of the Covid-19 that the government has been giving over recent months?

If so, they are deluding themselves. To find a comparison in politics, it is probable that you have to go back to the events of ‘Black Wednesday’ in September 1992 when the Conservative Government was forced out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism and its credibility was shredded.

But even the eye-blinkingly hesitant performance in the harsh probing lenses of the TV cameras of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, was more convincing than that served up to us by Mr Cummings in the Downing Street rose garden.

One would have to have a petrified diaphragm not to laugh at the imbecilic explanation of the road trip to Barnard Castle that was offered up to the British public by the Prime Ministers special adviser – an alleged genius.

I wish MPS Bell, Brereton Gideon and Gullis, every success in their role as Boris Johnson’s ‘sock puppets,’ if they think it will advance their careers. Good luck with that.

Personally, I don’t think it will wash, rather like Dominic Cummings’s grotesque explanations. Councillor Bill Cawley Leek West