Communication breakdown

From: Chris Giddings, Springwood Drive, Halifax.

IN Sir Bernard Ingham’s column (Yorkshire Post, January 9), he refers to Labour’s doom-mongering and their blaming 
the Tories for current 
spending cuts.

There do seem to be two major problems with the Conservatives and indeed the coalition, in that they cannot put forward a cohesive and well explained reason for what they are having to do. The Labour propaganda machine always makes a direct hit on whatever the coalition say, thus weakening their case.

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If David Cameron and Nick Clegg were equally good at scoring points, then the blame for the past Labour misdemeanours would be placed fairly and squarely where it belongs.

Flood blame lies with hill drains

From: RD Leakey, Giggleswick, Near Settle.

As a 98-year-old who has been a Yorkshire Dales resident for 66 years, what infuriates me is the cause of the flooding in the area, which is due to drains having been dug across the soggy flat hilltops to get water into the rivers to replace bogs with grazing grass for cattle.

If these man-made drains had not been dug at the end of World War Two, the floods in the Dales in the last few years would have gone unnoticed.

Live long 
and prosper

From; John Gordon, Whitcliffe Lane, Ripon.

YOUR recent report about Mr Read dying at 110 and Mr Tarrant, 109, and happily still with us, is great news to us octogenarians and lends a certain firmness to our stride.

I fear the coalition will not be so pleased. I expect a rapid draft of a Bill to cut off the Old Age Pension at 100, so enabling Mr Osborne to pay back the deficit before the next election.