It’s time our Government stopped treating us like idiots

From: Alan Carcas, Liversedge, West Yorkshire.

FORGIVE me, I may be wrong but isn’t it another three to four years until the next General Election?

To read, and listen to the hysteria in the media you would think polling day was next week.

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Try thinking back to 1997. Tony Blair, supposedly the best thing since sliced bread, got at least a two-year honeymoon, even from people, and institutions, who should have known better. In fact, it seems even now it’s only the Labour Party which hates him.

David Cameron? I haven’t seen any vestige of a honeymoon for him. The media, his own back-benchers, and everybody else, have been on his back since day one. Different people, but the same arrogant attitude among Tory MPs, did for the last Tory leaders, Howard, Duncan Smith, Hague, Major, Thatcher and Heath, and I served the party under all of them.

The Tory Parliamentary Party is no longer a party of government. It hasn’t been that for over 30 years. It’s now an ill-disciplined rabble. Blame the Lib Dems and the coalition all you like about problems in government, but there are too many on the Tory benches with open mouths and totally closed minds.

From: Don Burslam, Elm Road, Dewsbury Moor, Dewsbury.

THERE seems to be a widespread assumption that a referendum on Europe would be a pushover for the antis, but would it?

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Let’s study actual votes which have taken place over the country without any manipulation and in a secret ballot.

Not a single Ukip candidate has been elected to Westminster, and getting over five per cent and saving a deposit is about all they can manage; many don’t even achieve that.

Of course, other issues intrude at elections but even so, Ukip should be doing far better, if we are to believe the vociferous protesters and the suspect polls run by the media.

Even gullible mainstream politicians have started to believe the propaganda pumped out, but the truth is no one knows what the outcome would be.

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The real question is can we afford not to be a member of the European Union?

From: RP Brocklebank, Glen Crescent, Melbourne, York.

MORE than 100,000 people ask for a referendum on in or out of the EU.

Our leaders say we will have a debate on it. This is all very fine until I discovered that our glorious leaders instructed our representatives to ignore the wishes of the people and to vote against it. I just can’t see the point of having a representative if he or she is being dictated to on how to vote. It reminds me of how Gaddafi ran Libya.

From: David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.

WHY, if it is not right to whip horses, is it all right to put a three line whip on MPs to force them to vote against their wishes? Why do so many buses run around saying “Sorry, not in service”? Why do women always put their wheeled supermarket trolleys in the centre of the escalators, thus preventing anyone from going past them?

Can anyone provide answers?

From: R M Stockton, Acklam Road, Middlesbrough.

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WILLIAM Hague gave six reasons why he would vote against having a referendum on the EU. He missed one out – treachery.

From: Terry Palmer, South Lea Avenue, Hoyland, Barnsley.

DAVID Cameron, William Hague and the rest of our “democracy loving” government ministers have let the electorate down yet again. These so-called democrats threatened any of their MPs that dared to vote for a referendum allowing the British electorate a say to either stay in or come out of the EU, with dire consequences. Cameron and Hague sing the praises of the rebels who ousted leaders in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, even helping with bombings, and making mischief in Syria and telling us all it is quite in order to demonstrate if it brings about democracy.

Maybe the British electorate should take heed and follow the same path, peacefully of course, in order to achieve true democracy here.

It’s time British governments stopped treating the electorate like idiots.

From: Dick Lindley, Altofts, Normanton, West Yorkshire.

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IT beggars belief that a Prime Minister who sends brave British soldiers to fight in Afghanistan in the name of democracy would deny his own people the same basic democratic right to determine by whom they will be ruled. That is to say either by the democratically-elected Parliament of the UK or by the corrupt appointees of some foreign bureaucracy.