The Prime Minister's pulse quickened at the very thought of these accusations,for they
were neither fair nor true. How on earth accusations, for they were neither fair nor true.
How on earth was his government supposed to have stopped that bridge collapsing?
It was outrageous for anybody to suggest that they were not spending enough on bridges.
The bridge was less than ten years old, and the best experts were at a loss to explain why
it had snapped cleanly in two, sending a dozen cars into the watery depths of the river below.
And how dared anyone suggest that it was lack of policemen that had resulted in those two very nasty and well-publicised murders?
Or that the government should have somehow foreseen the freak hunrrivane in the West
Country that had caused so much damage to both people and property? And was it his fault this week to act so peculiarly that he was now going to be spend-ing a lot more time
with his family?