How do we make them listen?

GREAT to see support for “cynical” Thomas Jefferson of Bridlington (Yorkshire Post, August 16).

I, like many, agree with his views, but we really need to get David Cameron and the coalition to accept what most people think and act on our concerns.

If you try to write to any of the ministers, you get referred to a gobbledegook website that it is impossible to decipher.

Do we all have to resort to Twitter to get the twits to hear our voice?

Memory lane

From: David Hargreaves, Guisborough, Cleveland.

IN your excellent “From the Archive” series (Yorkshire Post, August 5), you featured a photo of Arthur Smith who sold scorecards on all of Yorkshire’s County grounds.

I sent it to a 74-year-old friend of mine, Chris Stevens, who has lived in Enfield, Middlesex, all his life. He wrote back: “Arthur Smith was a wonderful character, my main memories of meeting him were at Bradford (Park Avenue) and Scarborough. I saw plenty of Arthur there, and also at Bradford and Bramall Lane.”

Forging ahead

From: Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire, Shipley.

AS Kirkstall Forge now cannot progress until 2015, is there any possibility that the rival bid for Bradford city centre can begin forthwith? Many of us think it is a more important site than Kirkstall anyway and is in desperate need of increased attention.

Taking a shot

From: Thomas Black, Denton, Ilkley.

IN these troubled financial times I would like to submit the following relevant golf shot descriptions: Euro – over borrowed on the left; Dollar – useless; Pound – going nowhere; Obama – About to go into the bunker; An ECB – too many bailouts.