YEP Letters: August 19
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I just want to shop in peace
Jenny Riding, Castleford
Why is it not possible to walk through Carlton Lanes Shopping Centre in Castleford without being bombarded with folk shaking collection tins under your nose?
There’s also the people wanting to know if you have had an accident to make a claim. I walked through on Monday and had three different people approaching me with the aforementioned.
If I want to give to a charity I will do or if I want to make a claim I will do in my own way and time. I do not want it all shoving in my face when I want to do my shopping.
It is as bad as cold callers at your door or unwanted telephone calls (I ignore these two also). Come on Carlton Lanes management, sort it out and let us be able to shop in peace.
Politicians are ignoring the will of the people
Dr Glyn Powell, Kellington
Democracy in the UK is seriously threatened!
This is because our politicians are choosing to blatantly ignore the will of the people. Not least of which exemplified in the most serious instance by the decision of the people to withdraw from the failed EU project.
Two months after the referendum, Article 50 has not been invoked and some prominent figures within the ruling Tory party are saying we could remain in the EU until at least 2019.
This would be disastrous economically and also a further illustration of the contempt the political elite have for the views of ordinary folk. Turning to the Labour leadership contest, Blairite contender Owen Smith audaciously states that the people got it wrong on the EU and that he, like the Lib Dems would press for a second referendum.
Thankfully, he will not be elected Labour leader as members recognise that such a move would signal a move back to the dark and deceitful days of Tony Blair. Indeed, Smith’s contempt for ordinary people is further highlighted by his being a willing passenger in the attempt by right wing Labour MPs to unseat the incumbent leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was democratically elected less than a year ago. A further example of the erosion of democracy concerns the rush to grant “fracking” licences against the overwhelming wishes of local people.
Once again those in authority claiming that their knowledge concerning risks to the environment is greater than that of the objectors. Even worse, the government disgracefully proposes to buy support by offering financial inducements or “pieces of eight”. Politics in the UK is clearly and openly a dirty and dishonest business.
The masses have spoken
Martin McFadden, Drighlington
I couldn’t agree more with S Crees (YEP Letters August 17).
Cameron and Co were smugly confident that they were going to “walk it”, how wrong they were!
The result knocked their socks off. At last now they may understand the wrath of the majority of the people.
Some justice at last for the countless thousands of young servicemen who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country and us, what would they have thought to all the restrictions imposed on us by Brussels?
Laws that protect rapists and murderers, ludicrous human rights laws when these people shouldn’t have any rights whatsoever.
Strangling enterprise by imposing more and more restrictions on businesses. Last, but not least, billions of pounds handed over.
Pride in Great Britain will return again. Thousands did not sacrifice their lives in vain. The demoralised masses have spoken.
Vote based on untruth
Don Burslam, Dewsbury
BEING in or out of the EU should simply be decided on whether it benefits the country or not.