Chinese regime should face trial

BO Xilai, the former political leader in the Chinese regime, is jailed for life for corruption, abuse of power and involvement in the murder of a British businessman.

With the backing of the evil and corrupt Chinese regime of Premier Xi Jinping, this verdict is hypocritical beyond belief. Bo Xilai may well be guilty, as he has been found to be, but the successive and current regimes of China are guilty of very much greater crimes than his.

I hope that the day will come when the regime stands in the International Criminal Court and is made to account for its atrocities in Tibet, where over one million of its people have been murdered and over 6,000 of its monasteries destroyed.

Slice of life from mother’s mouth

From: Pamela Frankland, Hull Road, Dunnington, York.

MY late mother used to answer, “Bread and pullit” when we asked what was for tea after a three-and-a-half mile trudge home from school – Applegarth Primary in Northallerton. No school buses or taxi transport then!

She did not know what it meant either. My late aunt used to tease older friends as old gadgers or old fuzzocks. Anyone who got a bit above themselves was asked: “Since when did you get a quid a week?” Girls were referred to as “Polly cocktoes” if they were being cheeky!

Lovely old sayings. So much is so bland today with political correctness at the fore.

Lord well paid to run railways

From: PJ Nightingale, The Vinery, Howden, East Yorkshire.

Why does Charles Loft (Yorkshire Post, September 23) make the oft-repeated comment about Dr Beeching earning more than the Prime Minister?

Lord Stamp was paid this fee for heading the London, Midland and Scottish Railway prior to nationalisation and that was only one-third the size of the old British Railways.