A couple of weeks ago the S.N.J. carried a front page headline of "Just Trust Us" alongside a picture of Siobhan Baillie and I immediately thought you were having a laugh.
It was only when I read the article I realised that it meant that, in her opinion, her Government should trust the general public to behave responsibly and do what they know to be the right thing as regards the Covid restrictions. It is all very well her suggesting the public should be trusted but how does she come to the conclusion that they can be? Where are the previous indicators that people can be trusted to do the right thing, and in view of the behaviour and example set by her colleagues in government, why should they? Isn't it just "don't do as I do, do as I tell you" and then you'll probably get a government contract paid for by the taxpayer, unless you have an off-shore bank account of course, or maybe you'd like a seat in The House of Lords? As long as you are friends with someone in the "Cabinet" or the P.M.s wife you're in.
Several weeks ago I asked Siobhan Baillie about the sleaze and cronyism in her 'Party but she just ignored me, in the same way as she has ignored all the other questions I have put to her in the last six months. Does anyone know how to get a question answered by her?
She says that her Government should trust the public, but that would be the same public that under our bizarre electoral system put a bunch of crooks in charge of this country and her into Parliament. It seems to me blatantly obvious why the public shouldn't be trusted.
Howard Price.
Nailsworth
