The danger that the current travel nightmares could spiral into a summer of chaos will strike dread into holidaymakers.
Airlines and airports winging it after Covid, failing to recruit and train sufficient staff to handle rising passenger numbers, is unforgivable and the Government’s inability to bang heads together makes the problem worse.
Brexit is another factor but the long queues and delays can be pinned on corporate incompetence with the threatened strikes on railways and British Airways potentially intensifying the misery.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps should start doing his day job to keep Britain moving, putting pressure on companies letting us down rather than forever bashing workers vowing to protect their living standards.
His party’s over
TWO more Tory MPs publicly calling on Boris Johnson to quit and fresh evidence of another unlawful PM’s birthday party leaves him sinking deeper into the mire.
Cynically repeating old announcements about imperial measures and grammar schools betray the desperation of a Downing Street running out of ideas to save an electoral albatross around the neck of the Conservative Party as well as the country.
Johnson’s unfitness to govern is demonstrated by the incompetence, chaos, wrong decisions and lies of a Tory PM doing too little too late to calm a cost of living crisis he fanned with tax and price rises.
Tory MPs would be doing themselves and us a favour by dumping jaundiced Johnson.
Not so insular
The first deaf contestant plus a microbiologist, paramedic, hotel waitress, nanny and former England footballer’s daughter...
Love Island is certainly working hard to project itself as more than a battle of the abs and Botox. May the best pair win in a compelling show that cannot be ignored unless you’re marooned on a desert isle yourself.
