Government has gone soft

WHEN David Cameron was first elected Prime Minister, he was heralded as the answer to all our problems. Since then he has almost turned the economy around with cuts, cuts and more cuts.

However, he has gone soft keeping our troops unnecessarily in Afghanistan and allowing immigrants in from Bulgaria, Romania and now Syria. He can’t control law and order – or so it appears. His only real plus is having Ed Miliband as Leader of the Opposition who would be a scream if he could be taken seriously.

Leading light

From: Michael Meadowcroft, Former Liberal MP for Leeds West, Waterloo Lane, Leeds.

YOUR article on the collection of historic photographs of Huddersfield (Yorkshire Post, January 25) left by the late Alderman Clifford Stephenson failed to mention that he was a former Liberal leader of Huddersfield County Borough Council and an avowed expert on local government finance.

NHS praise

From: Janet E Brook, New Road, Middlestown, Wakefield.

I HAVE recently been having radiotherapy at St James’s Hospital in Leeds. I was very impressed by the kindness and efficiency of all the staff. The radiotherapy department was a welcoming and calm haven.

French lesson

From: Mr SB Oliver, Churchill Grove, Heckmondwike.

Hugh Rogers had a comical slant on why the Tour de France is starting from Yorkshire (Yorkshire Post, January 30), namely an tactical error at Hastings in 1066.

In “resting his case” (in French) he used the second person plural (restez) instead of first person singular (reste), which would get the red pen in my exercise book.

Can anyone answer my question why an orchestra has the “French Horn” (in English) but the English horn is called the “Cor Anglais” – in French?