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Letter of the week
Dear Editor
I see what is becoming a consistent criticism of Reform and its officials here on TCW, which in my experience of the transition from UKIP to Brexit Party to Reform are in the main quite unjustified.
Today’s very one-sided article an example.
There may very well be some anomalies, of course. Reform has achieved in a remarkable short space of time achieved what has always been considered impossible: to break through the monopoly of the major parties, win five seats, lead in the polls, be on the cusp of winning a GE.
All this in an anti-MSM climate you are only too familiar with.
Current investigations, by a King’s Counsel at the request of Reform, Parliament and the Metropolitan police are in progress into the Rupert Lowe affair. Surely, it’s prudent to await the outcomes of these investigations?
However I understand the impatience of youth and middle age to express an opinion, which is fine but to come down on one side or the other wholly premature.
I would recommend these questions: who benefits most from attacking the only party that can save the UK; who benefits from the attempts to derail Reform? I suggest their enemies, wherever they may be.
Runcorn will, I feel sure, be resuming another MP for Reform.
For God’s sake, get behind them or get out of the way.
Michael Bennett
Marxism in our schools – and a poem!
Dear Editor
Niall McCrae’s recent article resonated. I work in education and see on a daily basis the effect of DEI that you eloquently rote about.
I’m sure it wouldn’t surprise you to know that about five years ago, our school house names, which had always been the appropriately named Wellington, Stanhope and Montgomery, were changed to Seacole, Turing, and Pankhurst. This was due to a recently arrived young Canadian teacher (Trudeau and Carney have a lot to answer for) – a cult Marxist woke warrior. It gets worse. In the English corridor, the name of, you’ve guessed it – SEACOLE!!! – appears again. It’s given equal weighting to Shakespeare and Dickens, along with other woke heroes of whom I’ve never heard of, like Sojourner Truth (they wouldn’t get the irony!) and Toussaint L’Ouverture.
Anyone objecting to this would at best be ignored, or more likely be disciplined and forced to attend a white privilege course, or even worse, the police would be involved. The only way I can deal with his insanity is to write a poem or song about the situation. To that end, I’d like to give you ode to a cultural Marxist. To the cadence of John Betjeman’s famous one about the steam train and postal order. Being a geeky scientist, my knowledge of arts is not great, so can’t remember the name of it, but you know it!
Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt school,
Well, you know, you know he was their coolest dude
Cloward and Piven, Cloward and Piven
From their ideas Gates, Soros and Schwab have risen
Then there’s that bloke, Fink at BlackRock,
I seriously think he’s a bit of a c*ck
You can be genderqueer, you can be trans
And you know you’re sure to have plenty of fans
DEE, ESG, definitely don’t do it for me
Rejoice, rejoice, Reform are clever (written before our current woes),
Together we’ll vanquish cultural Marxism forever.
To you great people at TCW, I love all your articles. Beacon of hope.
David Hulland
Slaughter in Syria, justified by our government
Dear Editor
With Iraq, the picture was never ‘unclear’ (relating to the answer from Foreign Office Minister, Hamish Falconer, to a question from MP Jim Allister, TUV) and the sanctions were known to be responsible for the deaths of 5,000 women and children per month, the sanctions lasting approximately 12 years. Yet, they still kept the sanctions in place. The terrorists now in power in Syria are our terrorists, so the attitude is different. A few thousand Christians here and there (no one is counting; who really cares?), but a few thousand Christians will be slaughtered. Britain wants a ‘stable country that can stand on its own two feet’, you see, so a few thousand Christians slaughtered is the price that has to be paid. And it wasn’t just ‘Saturday’! My God, are we really going to believe that everything was hunky dory until last Saturday? Minorities in Syria are being slaughtered every day. Saturday was just when it was picked up by an apathetic Western mainstream media press which doesn’t want to know what’s really happening in Syria, because what is really happening goes against the preferred narrative that the UK can do business with those in power in Syria, even though those in power in Syria are a bunch of murdering, terrorist b*st*rds!
Louis Shawcross
N. Ireland
The likelihood of Net Zero is… zero!
Dear Editor,
I would like to endorse Clark Cross’s observations in his letter of 9/3/25.
None of our current politicians have a Sustainable Population Policy for this country. The evidence of their failure to limit combined legal and illegal (irregular?) immigration is increasingly evident to anyone with a pair of eyes and ears.
As Clark points out, how can Net Zero CO2 be achieved if those that generate CO2 keep increasing in numbers?
Homegrown food security has been a recent topic in the news, a big problem for a population that’s 20million or so more than during the hard rationing of the last world war.
Some suggest that a UK population of under 40million could be self-sufficient in most things and would definitely reduce our CO2 emissions! As Clark says, the long-term foresight of our short-term leaders is severely wanting!
Robert Aves Elliott
Swansea, Wales
A banking nightmare
Dear Editor
Since the abandonment of the Gold Standard, there is no longer any real money in the form of promissory bank notes issued against gold reserves, and we, like much of the world, are simply living beyond our means with money created as debt by the private banking system. Sterling has become a fiat currency, one that exists by faith in its issuer as opposed to one backed by something such as gold.
The scale of UK indebtedness is certainly way beyond what people imagine, and this is because the banks are not lending the savings or investments of people and companies who would be deprived of the use of their money in exchange for interest. They are simply creating money by making computer entries that have no reference to anything other than the ability of the recipients of their magic money to pay the interest on what they borrow.
Even if a borrowing country can’t pay that interest, the banks will lend them the money to do so. This is what is happening to Britain now. Part of the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement (PSBR), or the annual deficit as it has become to be known, is money borrowed from the banks to pay the £2.5billion a week of interest which we owe to those same banks. Yes, that’s right: £130 billion a year.
The banks have allowed us to live beyond our means to the extent of about three thousand billion pounds sterling as a country, and as individuals probably as much again in consumer debt, such as mortgages, credit cards, car loans and the like.
Of course, this debt money is unrepayable. If it was to be repaid, even in a small part, we would soon run out of liquidity and there would be incredible hardship. A sensible course for government today would be to force the banks to write off some or all of the national debt, thus reducing our interest burden, on the basis that they have had a good run with their magic money, and the game is over. Much better and more effective than cancelling benefits.
To look back a bit, banks used to lend to countries in the rather naive belief that countries do not go bust, but they were forced to write off African debt in the 1990s on the moral ground that the capital would always be unrepayable, and the interest payments were killing the economy of the countries in question.
The banks wrote these debts off without any real loss because what they had lent to those countries was magic money that had never existed in the first place.
The UK and the USA are now in that same position as those African and other countries, and it is dawning on them that they are being taken for a ride by the banks. Enough is enough.
On a day-to-day operating basis, the banks have created and operate their own Automated Clearing System (BACS) where they manipulate a vast digital fund in the sky, to which banks both input and draw from, to satisfy their daily business transactions and interbank exchanges, and from which they balance their books each evening.
If, because of technical or time problems, there is not enough of that fund available, the Bank of England simply makes up the shortfall, at interest to the banks themselves of course.
As an illustration of the scale of possible future disasters, the combined liabilities of the two Scottish banks when they failed in 2008, and were rescued by the UK government, was £4,650billion, which is equivalent to about £930,000 for every person in Scotland, or twenty-three times the GDP of Scotland.
Liabilities are due where they are incurred, and 60 per cent of these liabilities were incurred with the UK, so Professor John Kay’s assertion that the failure of these two banks would have ruined Scotland is not correct. Indeed, of their 20,000 combined employees, only 6 per cent worked in Scotland.
What it did do, however, was give the Scots a fright and let them see how risky life could be in an independent Scotland if the banking system was not regulated, controlled and – more importantly – did not operate on a full reserve basis. Thus, getting into debt by means of the banks creating money was not possible.
However, the fact remains that if faith in this flawed funny-money casino system was to falter or be challenged, it could collapse.
So, banking and currency is surely the priority of an independent Scotland. Baby boxes and Gaelic road signs can wait.
Malcolm Parkin
COP30 killing the Amazon
Dear Editor
It is shocking that an eight-mile stretch of the Amazon rainforest has been felled to build a four-lane highway that will take delegates and visitors to COP30 in the city of Belem in November. Over 50,000 people are expected to attend COP30, and the majority will fly in, with many using private jets. How much additional greenhouse gases do these ‘green’ conferences create? For 30 years, COP delegates have wined and dined at the taxpayers’ expense, yet global temperatures are still rising. Must be all the pointless hot air the delegates emit.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
Britain’s relevance has been eclipsed
Dear Editor
Living in Australia as a Pommie immigrant is interesting. Our news here is of… Australia, the USA and Palestine. The UK has sunk below the horizon as a complete irrelevance, further away from reality than Tasmania or NZ! This perhaps can be corrected if you could drag the relationship back from the abyss. The King celebrating the end of Ramadan in Windsor may or may not have helped, depending on who you hope will ‘WIN’.
Howard Dewhirst
BBC turns off another listener
Dear Editor
I didn’t know about this programme until this week. I listened to ‘In Our Time’ on Cyrus the Great which was fine. I carried on with this programme as I’m interested in the use of words, but switched off because it was vigorously anti-Trump, with particular reference to the ‘infamous’ White House meeting.
I think the presenters did refer to it being a podcast, but it was announced as a normal programme. I wonder if the BBC will balance it with a programme which is pro-Trump?
I listen to very little BBC output these days.
Yours sincerely,
Christopher Haines.
