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Letter of the week
Dear Editor
I understand the uproar surrounding Vice President JD Vance’s recent speech at the Munich Security Conference, in which he spoke honestly about how Europe has surrendered to immigration and changed itself forever.
Frankly, everyone knows it’s true. As for those up in arms, they’re cross either because they didn’t say it first, or they simply can’t handle a truth that they know is bang on.
Bill Kenwright
Fulham
Reform needs some kind of, well, reform
Dear Editor
I enjoyed John Hale’s article this week on the Reform Party. I too was a member of Reform and went to the branch meeting at Spalding only to be severely disappointed.
The so-called ‘constitution of Reform’ says about members having a say on policy, but everything appeared decided before the meeting with no opportunity for the members on the floor to voice their opinions. Other people who attended became quite animated, shouting ‘what about deportations?’, but this was ignored.
I think Nigel Farage made a catastrophic mistake in withdrawing candidates and allowing Johnson a free run to secure an 80-seat majority. Brexit? No, I don’t think so.
What Farage should have done is stand candidates against the Conservatives where there were Remainers.
Similarly, Richard Tice has remained blinkered about the ‘vaccines’ and refuses to acknowledge what happened with the lockdowns, et al.
When it was suggested that the way to increase voting at the next election was to undertake litter picks whilst wearing Reform badges, this was too close to being Liberal Democrat for me and, of course, the Lib Dems have never secured any majority.
I fear that having Zia Yusuf as chairman has caused Reform to shy away from addressing the problems brought by Islam and I doubt that Reform will ever dare to suggest that the intentional policy of importing Labour voters is reversed.
Ian Colley
Lincolnshire
A recipe for disaster: politicians with no practical experience
Dear Editor
Out of curiosity, I looked up the two MPs who have just been suspended by the Labour party, Andrew Gwynne and Oliver Ryan, on Wikipedia.
Mr Gwynne became a local councillor at the age of 21 in 1996, while studying for a BA in Politics and Contemporary History, remaining so until he entered Parliament in 2005. He has been an MP ever since.
Mr Ryan joined the Labour party at the age of 15 in 2010 and became a local councillor at the age of 19 in 2014, while studying for a BA in Modern History with Politics. He obtained a Graduate Diploma in Law. He remained a local councillor until he stepped down in 2023, entering Parliament the following year.
These two gentlemen appear to follow a pattern that is sadly all too common in Westminster, in Holyrood and, I presume also, in the Senedd in Cardiff, with politicians of all the established parties: teenage membership of a party, an arts degree, becoming a councillor or working for a parliamentarian and then becoming a parliamentarian themselves.
What is glaringly missing from the CVs of this type of parliamentarian is significant experience of the working in the world away from politics. Any real experience of business and commerce is inconceivable. Furthermore, given their arts degree backgrounds, one can’t help but wonder whether some of them are numerate, or even sufficiently scientifically literate to know a Watt from a Joule.
Is it any wonder that the country is in such a mess when it is governed by such people?
Otto Inglis
Fife
An overview of dirty Drax power plant
Dear Editor
Wood-burning Drax power plant is not as green as claimed. Eco-campaigners have pointed this out for years. Now, it has been announced that Drax will continue to be subsidised by electricity users to the tune of more than £2billion for the period 2027 until 2031, despite it having produced 12million tons of CO2 in 2023, which was higher than when Drax burnt coal. Drax consumes 27million trees a year from Canada and America. Drax has long claimed that when existing trees are cut down, new ones are planted. However, it can take up to 100 years for each new tree to soak up the CO2 released into the atmosphere by burning the old one.
We need Drax, which in the last 12 months supplied 7.2 per cent of our electricity. Unreliable Wind and solar could only manage 36.8 per cent. Reliable gas provided 28.6 per cent, reliable nuclear 14.8 per cent, the interconnector from Europe 12.7 per cent and Drax 7.2 per cent a total of 63.3 per cent.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
