PM’s high life
ANDY Burnham loves to tell us how different he is from all other politicians.
But when it comes to his own travel, he’s a high-flying hypocrite.
Yesterday morning, a took off at Stansted Airport to fly a government delegation to a Commonwealth summit in the .
But it was forced to make a sharp turn and head North to pick up the Prime Minister and his wife.
Why? Because he’d spent the weekend in his beloved and couldn’t be bothered to catch a train to London.
So he treated an Airbus A321 like an expensive taxi service to collect him on his own doorstep — landing taxpayers with an estimated £20,000 bill.
spent years in Opposition and they are forever lecturing us about the need for Net Zero.
But while families struggle with green taxes, is burning jet fuel so he can spend more time up North.
It seems like it isn’t enough to fritter money on his “Number 10 North” vanity project in Manchester and he now wants a “Heathrow North” to go with it.
Or perhaps he’s working on his next election slogan: I’m Andy, fly me.
No10 white flag
was hailed as the “tough cookie” with the tenacity to drive through controls on .
Her flagship reforms were welcomed by millions but met with whingeing from open borders left-wingers.
Eight months on, her proposals have gone the same way as most other radical policies under Andy Burnham.
The PM has caved in to pressure from and at least 100 MPs and told the Home Secretary to dilute plans to restrict settlement rights for lower-skilled migrants.
Once again the bleeding heart backbenchers have got their way, ignoring the wishes of the country.
It has taken just 12 weeks for Burnham to show his true colours.
He promised to tackle the big issues.
But at the first sign of a scrap with his own backbenchers, he’s proved he doesn’t have the stomach for tough choices.
Trivial pursuits
LABOUR continues to spend its time on trivial fluff while kicking Britain’s biggest dangers into the long grass.
The last week provided no extra cash to grapple with the threats we face from hostile foreign powers.
The Prime Minister should be rallying Commonwealth leaders in instead of apologising for things that happened 200 years ago.
Tory leader points out that the PM is more concerned about pleasing his own party than making difficult decisions.
Britain can’t afford another three years of treading water.
