SALLY Powell of WASPI was quite right to express her disappointment with the performance of our MP at her recent meeting and the lack of attention and knowledge of her association.

However, this is a common failing with younger inexperienced politicians who have not learned their craft properly and this only adds weight to the criticism of the new right-wing parties who have more extreme views.

Her statement that the way the changes have been made is causing a domino effect on the legislation and the way the senior civil servants interpret them, is an example of Whitehall’s law of unintended consequences.

The history of poor legislation since World War Two is now 65 years old and three generations of electors have suffered from it and there is no need for me to give you a list. There is not enough space in this letter.

I cannot foresee that Mr Stephen Crabb will be able to have any influence or power in the future on any new legislation because of his lack of credibility and judgement.

He has tried recently to salvage his reputation by involving himself in admirable causes.

However, political history also tells us that politicians who have fallen from grace very rarely return to positions of power and he must now consider himself very lucky that he is still a back-bencher.

I believe that the best thing that Mr Stephen Crabb MP (Conservative, Preseli Pembrokeshire) can do is to publicly apologise to this lady and the rest of the Pembrokeshire electors (tax payers).

And also a generous donation to her association would help.

The history books are a source of education for young up and coming politicians and bureaucrats and civilised governments have been around for thousands of years.

The navigators on land, sea and air need their compasses as a matter of life or death.

The people in government need their moral compasses and their integrity to survive in politics.

JOHN DAVIS Johnston