He inherited that inflation rate and unemployment from the Tories, the minimum wage is far too low, investment in education and health has mostly disappeared in layers of unnecessary beaurocracy, teachers have too much paperwork to be able to devote enough time to teaching our kids, hospitals are filthy, understaffed, and only able to cut waiting time by booking ops and then cancelling them (sending the patients back to the start of the procedure), and the right to roam is limited to how far you can walk from home, given that public transport is obscenely expensive, and unreliable, especially at weekends, which is the time most people have the leisure to roam.

Against that lot, banning hunting, and repealing gay and lesbian laws, while right, and welcome, doesn't stack up to much for eight years work.

Add in your "misjudgement" about the war (blatant dishonesty, and contempt for both due process, and the British people) and he doesn't exactly fit into your honest and hardworking category.

He should go Les, now, before the election, and since he will not, voting is indeed essential, to reduce his majority (the best we can hope for) to the point where his party will be forced to ditch him.

As long as we have parties using the "whip" to keep their MPs in line, internal change is impossible, so they have to be hit hard at the election, pour encourager les autres.

Don T.