March to the abyss continues

READING Sir Bernard Ingham’s piece on energy really was the last straw (Yorkshire Post, January 29). He tells us the Greens will leave you “impoverished and vulnerable”. Yet isn’t that a good statement of our nation now?

Our once proud Royal Navy couldn’t muster much of a presence on Batley’s Wilton Park, our top businesses in the hands of foreigners, jobs being outsourced to India and China in a global market they created, inflated house prices, privatised healthcare, badly managed education, poverty- stricken bankers being given free handouts while the poor are hit with benefit cuts after a recession caused by the greedy 10 per cent. We are cash cows for the rich.

Indeed, Sir Bernard thinks I’m “thick” for not voting Tory. I think I’m thick because I did – for 30 years.

David Cameron will leave us in more debt than ever and will be repeating the same mistakes made before 2008. Nothing has changed. The march to the abyss continues.

Now we have a fool’s gold “recovery” based on cheap money, massaged figures and more debt.

Fit for heroes?

From: John Toothill, Spring Avenue, Keighley.

AFTER nearly going bankrupt fighting two world wars, we now have a country fit for politicians, pen pushers, civil servants and their ilk, all on index-linked pensions, early retirement and generous redundancy schemes.

It was supposed to be a land fit for heroes.

On the scrounge

From: Phyllis Capstick, Hellifield, Skipton, North Yorkshire.

JUST before Christmas, there appeared on television “very appealing” appeals for water aid for parts of Africa.

How is it that for decades now, our governments have been sending millions of pounds, supposedly in aid to these countries, and these people still have no clean water to drink?

Where does this money go?