Mail bags could stamp out rude

FURTHER to Andrew Vine’s piece (‘Silently Seething’, Yorkshire Post, October 15), it never ceases to amaze me how individuals like the one he experienced get away with such ignorance and ignore-ance.

As Mr Vine said, everyone else around sits with toes curling in anger but does not challenge such a person because that wouldn’t be the English way! An entire carriage full of people would show more regard for him than he clearly had for them.

The ideal solution would be for someone to have taken his mobile and thrown it out of the window but, alas, inter-city carriage windows no longer open.

Perhaps the answer is to bring back the contraptions the Royal Mail used to use for despatching mail bags along the route of the mail trains.

Anti-social individuals could be hung out of the mail car and scooped into the next available net as the train passed. Problem solved, silence restored, and a lesson taught.

Foxed by return to old argument

From: Tim Mickleburgh, Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.

THE past Labour government was accused of spending too much time on the bill to abolish fox hunting. Yet at least that was at a time when the economy was booming.

Thus I now find it hypocritical that the Tories are talking of looking at the fox hunting issue again, when there are 2.5 million out of work and many in employment who haven’t had a wage rise for years.

Whatever happened to compassionate conservatism? It seems to have become an oxymoron.

Pirates ahoy!

From: John Watson, Hutton Hill, Leyburn, North Yorkshire.

THERE is not much to smile about in the morning papers these days but the fact that President Putin has decided to detain the crew of the Greenpeace ship in Russian waters fills me with delight 
and a certain amount of satisfaction. I hope he throws away the keys!