Northern disdain for Tories has deep roots in miners’ strike

I CAN but assume that people in “the North” have a dislike for the Tories because, despite a generation away from the miners dispute, there is in my view a huge amount of distrust based on the impact they had and continue to have on our regional industries and communities (Yorkshire Post, October 18).

Our northern character reflected in the spirit and kinship of these neighbourhoods may have been cowed but it is not dead and neither is our memory of the spitefulness that the Tories inflicted on the region.

The rights or wrongs of the miners’ dispute are well documented. The repercussions however continue and seem even more exaggerated when we appear to be constantly bombarded with how prosperous the South East and London is compared to other parts of the country and the Tories apparent desire to focus more funds into the South East.

Yes, some sections of the the North are thriving and flourishing but much still needs to be done. We do however have something that arrogant and conceited David Cameron and George Osborne et al will probably never have or understand – a sense of local pride and self-respect.

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

YOUR front page (Yorkshire Post, October 18) revealed that many “Northerners” dislike David Cameron and thus are unlikely to vote for him and the Conservative Party. I do not care for, or trust, Mr Cameron – nor Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband or Caroline Lucas. If they had policies that I very much want and agree with, I would vote for them. As things stand I will never vote for any of those four parties, people or policies.

From: Max Nottingham, St Faith’s Street, Lincoln.

DAVID Cameron’s political epitaph should read “Food Bank Cameron, The Creator of Much Misery”.

How dare his ministers use the word “fair”?

From: Jack Brown, Barnsley.

THE front page news stories (Yorkshire Post, October 15) “Energy Threat to North Yorkshire Moors” and “Efforts to Gain Northern Support for HS2 by Starting Up Here” are evidence that we are ruled by megalomaniacs. We can build 10 nuclear power stations with HS2’s £50bn. Labour has been in thrall to anti-nuclear idiots since the NUM decided its energy policy. What is David Cameron’s excuse?

From: Brian H Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

I ALWAYS enjoy Terry Duncan’s colourful correspondence but I strongly disagree with his sanguine view of the British popular press (Yorkshire Post, October 17).

If Cameron, Clegg and Miliband are “creeps, all of them” for 
being united in trying to curb the sort of excesses that, thankfully, did for the News of the World 
and are now embarrassing the 
Daily Mail, where does it
leave the individuals who sanctioned the invasion into the grief of the Dowler and Miliband families?