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Letter of the week: Is this China?
Dear Editor
If Starmer drives the banning of X any further in this country, we should be outraged that debate is being replaced with his version of approved silence. Is this China?
Bill Kenwright
London
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Maduro’s crimes
Dear Editor
Prosecuting President Maduro of Venezuela for drug dealing is rather like pursuing the notorious Chicago gangster Al Capone for not paying his taxes. He may very well be guilty as sin, but it totally misses the heart of his wrongdoing.
Maduro and his associates rigged their country’s presidential elections. Together with his predecessor Hugo Chavez, he has destroyed Venezuela’s economy, looted its wealth for personal and familial enrichment, caused a famine in the country with the world’s largest proven oil reserves and driven millions of Venezuelans into exile. All while ostentatiously proclaiming his commitment to socialism.
Those who now shout loudest about international law are the same moral phoneys who had nothing to say when Venezuelans starved on the ‘Maduro diet’ nor about his regime’s election rigging.
Magnificent as the abduction of President Maduro from his Cuban bodyguards is, I fear it will not be enough to bring this monstrous dictatorship to an end.
Otto Inglis
Fife
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Farmers to the rescue
Dear Editor
Harriet Cross, Conservative MP for Gordon and Buchan, praised the farmers, contractors, council employees and others who had been out in the deep snow rescuing drivers, clearing roads and helping to transport food and essential goods. Would these be the same farmers who the UK Government have threatened with crippling Inheritance tax? Would these be the same farmers who have been told their farms and cattle are creating greenhouse gases and they must immediately curtail this to save the planet? Would these be the same contractors, businesses and councils which have suffered huge increases in employers’ National Insurance which resulted in redundancies and fewer staff being employed?
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
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Coalition of the Wishful Thinkers
Dear Editor
I find myself wondering what planet Starmer, Macron and the rest of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ are living on?
It is patently obvious to all but the dimmest amongst us that Putin has no intention of stopping his invasion of Ukraine. He will have watched Tuesday’s empty, meaningless posturing in Paris and laughed. I believe he has to continue the war to guarantee his own survival as Russia’s leader.
The ‘Declaration of Intent’ is simply sabre-rattling (Putin knows all about that), but the European scabbard has no sabre in it, just pebbles.
Macron and Starmer, two failed leaders overseeing the destruction of their own countries from within.
How sad and increasingly dangerous our world is becoming.
Alan King
Kent
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The Government is pushing us to economic collapse
Dear Editor
Every action that strengthens the state and weakens the private sector makes us poorer. Ever-increasing employment legislation means fewer people will be hired.
Largely unviable infrastructure projects, with endless budgets and deadlines, result in blank cheques worth billions paid by taxpayers.
Endless money poured into pet projects, like the net zero fantasy, is building Britain’s towering financial debt mountain, pushing the nation ever closer to economic collapse.
Stephen Priest
Wokingham
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Where are the buccaneers?
Dear Editor
After much cogitation, I’ve decided on a word one can use to assess whether any politician is worth following or voting for. It is deliberately an a-political word, simply because a political one is immediately flawed in some way, and arguments against such a politician are inevitably political, which really gets you nowhere. So, I’ve decided the word is ‘buccaneer’. Its advantage is that it denotes spirit. The buccaneer spirit built Great Britain as a world power. Only the buccaneer spirit will overcome our troubles today. Now use this benchmark and name a name or two. Difficult, isn’t it (other than Trump)? You’d certainly have applied it to Jimmy Goldsmith, and at one time Farage. Now? (The other benchmark to monitor is when/if the buccaneer spirit deserts a person, or is bought off).
John Drewry
Beckenham
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Wanted: Honesty about energy bills
Dear Editor
I note the message from TCW about what is actually keeping our energy bills so high. If Starmer, Miliband and all the ministers etc involved in charging us for energy were completely transparent with the electorate, trust would return.
Why is it that during the period when the government were ‘giving’ us extra cash to help with our bills from 2022-2023, it was clearly marked on each energy statement as the following (‘giving’ seemed to mean not charging us as much, more on a scale of what will the public stand?):
‘The Energy Price Guarantee has been applied to your bill. This will save a typical dual fuel household around £700 this winter, based on what prices would have been under the October price cap. A Government-led review will be conducted to consider energy support after 31 March 2023.’
Also this: ‘HM Government has introduced an Energy Price Guarantee which limits the amount you can be charged per unit of gas or electricity for the next 2 years from 1 October. Your saving will depend on how much you use, but a typical household will save at least £1,000 a year. This Energy Price Guarantee has already been applied to your bill, and you do not need to take any further action.’
But if you look at any energy bill from around 2018 onwards there is no specified amount taken out of customers’ bills. Or is it all hidden in the ubiquitous ‘Standard Daily Charge’ which seems to increase for no reason?
It would be nice for them to also be honest as to exactly how much this ‘Net Zero’ scam is going to finally cost us! Especially with the £billions paid out to shut down the turbines!
Bob Moore
Kent
