Dirty politics

What could the Cons want the public to be distracted from?

The list is endless but here are a few: An increase of more than 2,500 per cent in food parcels since 2010.

Hate crime up by 100 per cent in England and Wales.

The doubling of the UK deficit despite austerity.

Almost 100 people dying every month after being declared fit for work.

NHS trusts deliberately primed to fail in an attempt at full scale privatisation, a move that will profit many Tory MPs.

Nursing degree applications down more than 20 per cent after the scrapping of bursaries.

Nearly half a million people no longer having access to councilfunded care.

The number of homeless people has doubled since 2010 according to several charities, no wonder the Cons want to gag them.

A third of zero hour contract workers want more hours.

The Office of National Statistics reports that since 2010 400,000 more children are living in poverty.

House building is at its lowest peacetime level since the 1920s: 99 per cent of schools will have pupil funding cut.

Also a survey revealed that more than half of primary school teachers reported pupils showing signs of hunger in the classroom.

And given the outrage about Corbyn only condemning ‘all acts of terrorism’ (Warrington Guardian, April 27) I wonder if those feigning indignation might ask St Theresa to put aside her sycophantic posturing with Trump and ask him why he attended an IRA fundraiser in the 1990s.

Perhaps she should also try to make good the promise she made on taking office when she called for a ‘vision of the country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us’.

GRAHAM BRINKSMAN Orford