IF you need evidence that this Government is rudderless you need not look far.

According to our MP, the “long-term economic plan” would eradicate the deficit by 2020, while protecting the working poor.

The Chancellor has just admitted that the plan has been abandoned. All the misery of the cuts had achieved nothing.

As for Mrs May’s promise on becoming Prime Minister - “If you are just managing, the Government I lead will be driven not by the interests of the privileged few, but by yours. When it comes to taxes, we’ll prioritise not the wealthy, but you” - well, that was a cruel lie.

A Treasury calculation proved that a family with two children, where one parent is working full-time on the minimum wage, will lose £1,780 per year as a result of the cuts to working allowance under Universal Credits about to be implemented.

Not one penny has been given to plug the gaping hole in the budgets for social care for an ageing population, despite councillors of every party throughout England pleading for emergency help.

Brexit will blow a £59 billion hole in our finances, while Tory ministers squabble; Boris Johnson wants more immigration and an amnesty for illegals, David Davis is willing to go on paying the EU after we leave (so much for £350 million per week for the NHS), others howl ‘treachery’ in their determination for a ‘hard Brexit’ regardless of the damage done to British jobs and living standards, while EU leaders reveal that is the only Brexit they will offer, scribbled notes on the pad of a ministerial aid disclose that ministers want to ‘have their cake and eat it’.

Wasn’t Marie Antoinette rather keen on people eating cake just before the French Revolution?

ALAN PAUL
Fulwood Close
Taunton