Ann Widdecombe comes to Northamptonshire

On December 8th, Ann Widdecombe addressed the Christmas dinner of the Northampton North Constituency.  She was in her usual feisty form, despite a bad cough, and was trenchant in her criticisms of this failing Labour government.  “These days you go into hospital and you come out with a disease!”
 
During questions, the global warming issue came up, and as usual, Ann was uncompromising.  Given the rapid growth of emissions in developing countries like India and China, she said, anything we did in the UK would be a waste of time.  In a stunning simile, she added “You might as well throw a sugar lump into Lake Windermere and say you’d sweetened the water”.