Andy Burnham would be working down in the pit if it wasn’t for Margaret Thatcher - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Paul Morley, Ribblesdale Estate, Long Preston, Skipton.
In his first innings at the despatch box Prime Minister Burnham tells us that the country is in the state it is because of Margaret Thatcher’s terms in office and Brexit.
He had only reached double figures when Mrs Thatcher came to power so would have no real concept of the terrible state of our country in the 70s, I believe the term nowadays is lived experience.
A left-leaning education whilst she was sorting the country out would have given him a somewhat one sided view right through to university and on current form doesn’t seem to have progressed beyond that.
He should be grateful to her that he has got to where he is, had Labour remained in power he may well have ended up down a pit rather than up at university.
And they say everything Thatcher did for the mining industry was bad! With regards to Brexit, perhaps if his equally inept predecessor and his fellow Europhiles hadn’t done everything they could to try to stop it we would be in a far better place today.
It’s time Mr Burnham took off the rose tinted glasses of his university days and faced up to the fact that he’s a big boy now with some of the biggest responsibilities of anyone in the country and it’s a big bad world out there.