NOW that the party conference season is thankfully over, and with a General Election looming, I believe we should heed the words of the Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971): “Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”
M Hawkins, Langley Park, Durham.
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