WELL, the Labour Government continues to implode, which is quite a feat.

The Tories took several years to get this out of touch with public opinion, Labour has achieved it in a couple of months.

And of course, this all started with the vindictive act of taking away the winter fuel allowance, whilst paying billions to Public Service workers.

And how did our local MP respond to this? He said, "I share your anger, this isn't a decision I wanted to make."

That's good, so how did he vote? He voted to support the government of course, what weasel words, and of course, he blamed the mythical 'black hole'.

Why is it that numerous FOI requests to the Treasury, concerning the 'black hole', have produced no results. Our local MP is obviously ambitious and knows if he had voted against it, he would have remained a backbencher, and maybe miss out on all the 'freebies'.

D.J White

Coates Close

Brighton Hill

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