Charity should begin at home

I DON’T really understand what our Chancellor George Osborne is thinking, these days – making drastic cuts on the one hand, yet still giving shedloads of money away to foreign nations, who are better off than us!

They are cutting funding to bus services, day care centres, libraries and even home care services. This is both cruel and unnecessary.

How can he possibly justify giving £650m to Pakistan, when recent reports prove only a third of it reaches the intended recipients?

Language lesson

From: Mrs Rena Allen, Cotherstone, Barnard Castle, Co Durham.

I WRITE in response to the letter from GC Wright on the cost of teaching immigrants English (Yorkshire Post, May 12).

I endorse his comments. When I was employed by the government as a colonial servant in 1950, we had to learn the local language (at our own expense) and pass an examination – otherwise our first three-year tour was not renewed.

We should learn many lessons from other countries, and follow suit.

Sex sense

From: Rita Brook, Green Lane, Lofthouse, Wakefield.

WELL said, Nadine Dorries MP, regarding present day sexualisation of young girls (Yorkshire Post, May 5).

Paedophile fodder springs to mind. Of course, it takes a male Labour MP, Chris Bryant, to more than criticise Nadine’s commonsense approach to this hideous sex saturation of society.

Let’s hope none of his family succumb to any form of female degradation.