Gavin Williamson has been over-promoted – it’s time he went back to his old desk and pet tarantula
Could this chronically inept government make even more of a pig’s ear of this year’s exam results? Boris is off to Scotland for a “staycation”, when he should be back here in London sorting out this fiasco. But he’s just like Trump. Not concerned with the details.
He makes my blood boil. I’m so distraught for these young people. Let’s hope it can be sorted out now after the latest U-turn (how many more?).
Gavin Williamson has been over-promoted way beyond his abilities and should be returned to his previous desk with his tarantula, which only shows a weirdly juvenile predilection for trying to be seen as “edgy”.
Fiona Coombes
Clitheroe, Lancashire
History repeating
Nicola Sturgeon has stated that next year’s election will be the most important in Scotland’s history. I expect she is being hyperbolic and knows it. It will almost certainly be a repeat of every single election in Scotland since 2014.
I expect the SNP will again campaign to stop the Tories, stop Brexit, say we are powerless to change society (it’s Westminster’s fault), and let’s have another independence referendum with the false additional claim that Scotland did better with Covid-19.
I know little about Dido Harding other than that the Test and Trace scheme over which she presided has not been especially world-beating. Given the questionable justification for scrapping (scapegoating?) Public Health England, and the absolute importance of extricating ourselves from the coronavirus pandemic, might it have been a better example of governance to have appointed the supremo of PHE’s successor body by a process of open and transparent competition, in which Ms Harding would have been free to participate.
A quick internet search shows she is a board member of the Newmarket-based Jockey Club whose MP and fervent supporter just happens to be health secretary Matt Hancock. Her Wikipedia entry is light on public health experience. I rest my case.
Patrick Cosgrove
Bucknell, Shropshire
Michelle Obama’s wise words
Today we see Michelle Obama stand by Barack and his work. Melania Trump doesn’t even want to hold Donald’s hand, again. Hands down, we should listen to the wisdom of Michelle Obama and those she supports.
Dennis Fitzgerald
Melbourne, Australia
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