YP Letters: Chris Grayling's CV of failure says much about Theresa May

From: Bob Holland, Skipton Road, Cononley, Keighley.
How is Transport Secretary Chris Grayling still in a job?How is Transport Secretary Chris Grayling still in a job?
How is Transport Secretary Chris Grayling still in a job?

Chris Grayling is still there as Transport Secretary and rail fares rise by over three per cent for a service in chaos.

Grayling has ‘form’. David Cameron made him Justice Secretary and prisons became unmanageable. Many were privatised; all were subjected to cuts in funding. Staff numbers fell dramatically and control of prisoners was reduced.

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In some prisons, the ‘cons’ took control from the staff. Drug addiction rose. Probation Services were made private; more ex-prisoners returned. Cameron had enough and Grayling went.

When Mrs May became PM, she knew all this and made her “blue-eyed boy” Transport Secretary. This shows her attitude to public services. They should be run privately – regardless of standard of service – and users should pay more for less.

This is the pattern from transport to prisons, to the NHS, social care and schools (now seeking parents’ money).

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So when the PM says her deal with EU on Brexit “is in the interests of the people”, I ask which people?

Those benefitting from her policies now or the four million in work who live in poverty, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation?