Let's see change

Is this really necessary when business makes do with video conferencing and has done for many years, reducing the time taken and expense of flights, hotels and, no doubt, security arrangements for said persons and their entourage?

It is time, from the outset, to practise what you preach. If economies are to be made then the public needs to see value for money.

While we are all being hit in the pocket the last thing we need to see is our politicians roaming the world at vast expense trying to recreate this country as being something it clearly is not anymore.

We need to be realistic and concentrate on getting our own country and our own issues in order first, before telling the rest of the world how it should be done – like some world policeman of a bygone age.

If we were to spend a lot more time dedicated to getting this country right, and less time meddling in the affairs of others we just might achieve more in the long run.

Now, more than ever, we need to have a home-focus – getting society right, maintaining our education system and health service; maintaining a healthy population, with an emphasis on healthy living and fitness.

Our infrastructure in many towns and cities needs to be looked at as our utilities and transport need urgent overhaul, and many of our unemployed could be used constructively in these projects, thereby reducing the burden of benefit payments.

The answer is less trips away, less involvement in poking our nose into the affairs of others and a much larger focus on home affairs. Above all, we need to stop surrounding our leaders with people who are groomed to say what they want to hear. Let people tell them where it is going wrong and what can be done to make things better.

Mr Cameron wanted change. Now he has office, let him create change. Hearing the truth from the public can be part of that.

The only problem is that he may not like what he hears. But then, neither might we.

Steve Plant, Thorney Leys, Witney