Keir Starmer must apologise for Brexit betrayal before Labour can move on – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Terry Palmer, South Lea Avenue, Hoyland, Barnsley.
Sir Keir Starmer succeeded Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader - but did he betray Brexit voters before the last election?Sir Keir Starmer succeeded Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader - but did he betray Brexit voters before the last election?
Sir Keir Starmer succeeded Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader - but did he betray Brexit voters before the last election?

AT last after four election defeats in a row, the people’s message seems to be getting through if we are to believe Sir Keir Starmer.

He is now saying that Labour has to listen and understand what went wrong at the last election before it can move forward. Desperation, sincerity or what?

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We ordinary folk certainly know what went wrong, yet he doesn’t? The answer is simple, an apology for ignoring the people’s majority Brexit vote would be a good start.

Sir Keir Starmer.Sir Keir Starmer.
Sir Keir Starmer.

When Starmer ensures an apology is in order, a promise that ignoring the people will never happen again and admitting that the Labour Party did try to betray the people’s decision of 2016, maybe then he’ll attract the thousands of ordinary working class voters that gave their votes to the Tory’s back into the Labour Party fold.

From: John Chester, Leeds.

ON January 30, the World Health Organisation said: “This is a serious infection worldwide.” And on March 11, WHO declared a “pandemic”. My source is from news channels – BBC and Sky.

In between the two dates given above, WHO repeated on afternoon TV that “the number of infections is not yet high enough to be called a pandemic”.

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The public realised that there was an upcoming and serious issue here – hence the rush in supermarket shopping. They were proved correct. So, was the number of infections set too high before calling a pandemic? Clearly the disease spread very quickly.

A question which follows is: what, if any, difference did delaying a possible lockdown 
for 12 days up to March 23 
make?

And, secondly, since the first death in the UK was reported in March 2020, at what date did it first become known that this dreadful disease attacked over 65s more severely than younger age groups?

We were told that all decisions taken were about doing the right thing at the right time. But how could anyone be absolutely precise about the timings?

From: Andrew Jeffery, Royds Park, Denby Dale.

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THE economic situation that we are in suggests that there will be a dramatic increase unemployment later this year. In addition, it may well be difficult for school, and university leavers, to find employment.

It would be a good idea for the Government to set up a team to plan and implement a strategy to create employment and training.

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James Mitchinson

Editor

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