Questionable characters and the British bulldog spirit

As one who, by tradition, has voted Tory for the past 50 years, I am becoming increasingly fearful about the judgement of our leader, Prime Minister David Cameron.

Initially he took in to his employ Andy Coulson as his PR, the allegedly dodgy former editor of the now disgraced, and defunct, Murdoch family-controlled scandal sheet, The News of the World.

Mr Cameron now has within his inner sanctum a man (Steve Hilton) who appears unable to dress to the standards that any business, such as Government, is expected to demand.

How can our PM demand respect when this man, his senior bloke, a so-called civil servant, walks the corridors of Number 10 dressed as if he had just returned from working as a bouncer a nightclub, as thuggish as he appeared when he gripped an MP (Andrew Tyrie) and led him to a private cell to tell him off for criticising treasury policy following George Osborne’s party conference speech?

This, to me, smacks of an era going back to another regime which failed to take over the world!

From: D Wood, Thorntree Lane, Goole.

David Cameron calls on “Britain to summon the Bulldog spirit” (Yorkshire Post, October 6). This from the man who before the 2010 election promised us to take back powers from the EU; to scrap the Human Rights Act; to cut immigration and a cast iron referendum on the Lisbon treaty.

This same man then went on to weakly surrender on every one of the above issues when faced with his masters in Brussels and his master in Westminster, the nonentity Mr Clegg.

If Mr Cameron would only give the people of this country what they want – a referendum on leaving the EU – he would see plenty of the British bulldog fighting spirit.

The tragedy for our great country is that the weak, lily-livered political elite at Westminster totally lack the British bulldog spirit.

From: Mrs Mary Dobson, Summerbridge, Harrogate.

I am interested to know of David Cameron’s call for Britain to summon the bulldog spirit. May I suggest that in our extreme need we do what Winston Churchill called us to do in the war.

He summoned the country to days of prayer; churches and chapels were filled on those occasions.

The name of Almighty God is never mentioned, as having the answer to our need.

I believe that He, not only has the answer, but is the answer.

The Holy Spirit is the person needed, not the one suggested by our present Prime Minister.