Cuts are wrong and dangerous

WHEN are our leaders, Messrs Cameron, Clegg and Osborne, going to realise that some of the financial cuts and restraints are wrong, dangerous and possibly life-threatening?

Our emergency services should be left alone unless they can be trimmed properly and without causing unnecessary loss of life.

I doubt very much if our Prime Minister or the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be exactly enamoured if either of their wives or one of their children was denied life-saving surgery because of the cuts.

Cross purposes over elections

From: Patrick Rohan, Scarborough Road, Norton, Malton.

The change of voting system is going to cost £250m to organise.

What a waste of money. Some 80 per cent of people in this country could not care less at present about elections in four years’ time. The way this lot is behaving at present in no way will they get back in.

We never see our MPs. Now is the time for them to get out of London and find out what people are thinking.

Expenses fraud from our MPs

From: Michael Ross, Weeton Lane, Leeds.

THERE is a very simple reason why an MP’s salary is not fixed at £160,000 per year or any other fixed amount ( Yorkshire Post, February 21).

A fixed sum salary will go through PAYE and be subject to prevailing tax rates. Expenses, on the other hand, are treated differently, some being tax deductible, thereby giving ample opportunity to those Honourable Swindlers wishing to defraud honest taxpayers.

Suez adventure

From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

FAR be it from me to defend American foreign policy over the years but fair is fair. The 1956 Suez fiasco was not American led, as James Bovington claims (Yorkshire Post, February 24). President Eisenhower was livid at what was an Anglo-French adventure.