Gracious of MP to admit fiddle

HOW gracious it was of the ex-MP Elliot Morley to admit his guilt of fiddling his Parliamentary expenses and save the country a few thousand that his trial would have cost, thus cutting one third off his inevitable jail sentence (Yorkshire Post, April 8).

From: P Smith, Hunters Green, Cullingworth, Bradford.

Regarding the Parliamentary expenses’ scandal, in particular with reference to Elliot Morley, this thief has not only cheated the taxpayer with his expenses but, by his not guilty plea, made it worse by protracting the whole situation and cost thousands of pounds more with the use of lawyers, prosecutors and wasted court time, before a last-minute change of plea to guilty in order to reduce his sentence!

Problem of education

From: LR Hirst, Northorpe, Mirfield.

WITH reference to the letter from Terry Duncan of Bridlington (Yorkshire Post, April 8), I agree with his comments about Wayne Rooney using foul language in front of TV cameras. But what can you say about a man accused of cheating on his pregnant wife, who uses swear words in front of children who idolise him and also gets paid £200,000 per week for doing it?

Also, he then appeals against a two-match suspension. I would have made it 12 months. As my father used to say: “You can’t educate pork.”

Wrong way

From: Peter R Hyde, Driffield.

WE hear that those workmen who have lost their jobs at Saltend, close to the site of the new Vivergo biofuels plant, are demonstrating in such a way as to obstruct traffic on Hedon Road on Hull (Yorkshire Post, April 12).

The question is what are the police doing to ensure that traffic can flow freely? The demonstrators will eventually alienate the public by their selfish actions. Demonstrate by all means but not in a way that interferes with other workers, many of whom will be struggling to hang onto theirs jobs.