I did go home, but no sooner had I arrived I decided to go back out again. A letter was waiting for me from my MP, enclosing a final reply from the health authority to the issue I raised with him last September. It's not the MP's fault. He acted immediately. The health authority, however, took four months to cook up their alibi.
What I already know (and I suspect my MP doesn't know I know) is that local autism services have been consistently underfunded by my MP's government, and that is why there is such a deplorably low level of service. Of course the letter from the health authority doesn't mention that fact.
I am lucky to have such a good, conscientious and hard-working MP. His politics, though, are anathema to me. Politics is a cunt. At the moment our national politicians spend their time wrangling along party lines, and scoring points off each other. I have often wondered if things might be better if the party system were completely abolished. Can you imagine if all our MPs were to spend their time working towards the common good, instead of having party axes to grind? What an inspiring thought!
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