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Letter of the week: Britain is not bone idle
YET another brilliant TCW ‘Week in Review’!
I found myself thinking last week: ‘Why is Trump going to the facile WEF’s jolly in Davos?’ Well now I know and I feel vindicated.
Why? To the dismay of many friends and colleagues, I see Trump as the free world’s only hope of coming through the global madness so prevalent today.
He is taking on the globalists head-on. If, and it’s a big one, he does somehow bring an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the globalists are in trouble. They want this war to continue. To them, war is money and nation destabilisation is easier when conflict is ongoing.
Yes, he ‘mis-spoke’ about Nato forces’ involvement in Afghanistan but do people realise that he does nearly all his press interviews off the cuff? No notes, no speech writers.
Anyone who has doubts about Trump should check out Robert Hardman’s piece in the Daily Mail about his weekend with the President.
It is great news that the traitorous Chagos deal may be dead now thanks to Trump’s intervention. Two words: thank God!
Now let’s get that other traitorous act stopped dead in its tracks, the Chinese Mega Embassy in London.
The final step? Getting Starmer and his gang of dangerous and destructive half-wits out of government.
Alan King
Deal, Kent
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Politicians who let in the immigrants should pay for their upkeep
Dear Editor
The question that should have been put at the recent public meeting in Crowborough to the local councillor and at every other local protest meeting is: Why should taxpayers have to financially support thousands of illegal immigrants when local people never consented to have them dumped into their communities? The people who should pay for these should be every member of the Cabinets, all Tory and Labour MPs, the Home Secretaries over the period unchecked immigration started, as they and they alone are responsible for the outrageous financial burden of billions a year that Richard North set out last week.
I suggest a 25 per cent cut in salaries of all those ministers responsible directly or indirectly for this ongoing expensive debacle would be appropriate, retrospectively, until the shortfall cost is reached.
Graham Wood
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Boycott French goods till they stop the Channel boats
Dear Editor
Britain has already given, or should that be ‘wasted’, £300million to France to stop the boats. Now Britain has committed to paying France £500million over the next three years to prevent the small boats crossing the Channel. The money will be used for a new detention centre and additional French law enforcement officers. For years the French Government, who hate the UK for Brexit, have done very little to stop these foreign invaders leaving France and openly encouraged them and wished them ‘Bon voyage’. Two British men, not connected in any way with the far right, have been arrested because they were puncturing the migrants’ dinghies. Why? The French should be doing this for the £300million and jailing and then deporting these people who are certainly not genuine asylum seekers but economic chancers. There is certainly no ‘Entente Cordiale’ now so the UK government must see results before handing over any money. The UK public should stop going on holidays to France and buying French food, wine and other goods.
Clark Cross
West Lothian
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Trump’s got a lot more marbles than Biden
Dear Editor
Last week the MSM said they thought that they could see signs that Donald Trump is losing his marbles. This is the same MSM who chose to look the other way when an obviously weak Joe Biden was paraded about as ‘fine’.
Bill Kenwright
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This is why the government want to see the end of pubs
Dear Editor
Thank you for your recent piece by James Jeffery on the state of pubs in Germany.
I have always believed the state of any small town can be reflected in the conversation prevailing at ‘the local’.
My local is in Leominster in Herefordshire, a small market town heavily involved with the farming industry, heavily under attack recently. The tiny government U-turn over inheritance tax will make little difference to the pressure under which this community remains.
A main source of conversation at the pub?
No.
The recent increase in the price of a pint of beer?
No.
Top of pub chat is how the town with its overburdened potholed roads, long abandoned by-pass, crumbling infrastructure, and dying high street will cope with a planned 1,650 new homes and the families that will occupy them.
The local council have admitted that existing spine roads next to the planned estates will remain through traffic for all new and existing traffic including HGVs, worse is that new spine roads may never be completed. This is actually planned by the council.
The environmental impact on this delicate rural area is inevitable, and where are the jobs for 1,650 new families?
The town centre is in a poor state, little serious expenditure on the centre of this old market town, other than to reduce traffic flow and the little that has been accomplished was at vast public expense.
In the pub the concern is whether the maniacs who are pushing this agenda realise how close the residents in this little market town are moving to breaking point.
Leominster salaries and wages are low and belts have been pulled ever tighter. We look at the future with real apprehension.
Perhaps the very fact that these discussions and conversations happen in pubs across the country is the very reason they are currently under government attack. Just a thought.
David Malcolm
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A particularly poignant Holocaust Memorial Day
Dear Editor
There is a curious sense of timing that the remains of the last hostage from the October 7 attack should have been located and returned at the same time as Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) is observed around the world. A hero’s funeral for Rani Gvili took place in Israel on Wednesday.
As a Christian, I hold the view that it is appropriate to mark in some way a number of these special days observed by the Jews. They were chosen by the God whom we worship to be the custodians of His Word revealed through them to be a light for the whole world.
Recently my wife and I attended a Holocaust Memorial service, in a Christian Church building, in which Christians sought to honour the memory of some 6 million Jews who were slaughtered wholesale after Hitler, on the suggestion of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, changed his policy from slave labour to extermination.
A Menorah, brought by a representative of Christian Friends of Israel, was lit. During the 2 minutes silence, I remembered Corrie Ten Boom whom I met at a conference when I was in my teens. She spoke of her experiences after her family was arrested for helping many Jews to escape from the Nazis in Holland. Especially painful was the death of her sister, Betsy, in Ravensbruck camp. Corrie spoke movingly about her feelings when a guard who had been cruel to her sister came after a meeting and asked to be forgiven.
We also had a Holocaust Sunday reference in the Anglican but not C of E Church I attend on Sunday mornings. This was led by the Deacon, who is also the leader of the Church’s Ministry among the Jews, which is the second oldest such organisation in the Anglican communion.
Living in Birmingham, the city where Israeli fans were banned from supporting the Macabbi Tel Aviv football team, I feel that it may be unsafe to show my support by openly flying the Magan David flag. However, I have placed a small brass Menorah in my front window as a more discrete sign of where I stand. And last October I added a poppy to mark the second anniversary of the 7th October attack, as well as changing my Facebook profile. Perhaps the return of Rani Gvili allows me to remove the poppy.
Yours faithfully
Robert Higginson
