I WAS astonished to read (October 8) that Angela Smith MP has resigned her position as a ministerial aide to Yvette Cooper MP in order to focus on her campaign to establish a coastal footpath around the UK.
While I am in no doubt that such a campaign is indeed a worthy cause, I just cannot understand how campaigning for coastal footpaths might benefit her land-locked constituents in Sheffield Hillsborough. It must be at least 50 miles as the crow flies
until you come across the Humber Estuary!
Of course, Ms Smith was the Labour MP who recently threatened to resign from the Government over the 10p tax rate debacle, only to make a quick change of mind, having been talked out of it by the Prime Minister.
Her inability to then make a principled decision about the disastrous 10p tax rate was at the time highly questioned, but given this most recent announcement Ms Smith's constituents must be even more confused.
Quite how does a coastal footpath campaign help her constituents and constituency in Sheffield?
This seems another strange decision from Ms Smith. I wonder what she will come up with next.
Spencer Pitfield, Parliamentary Candidate for Penistone & Stocksbridge
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