Restoring faith in Parliament

From: Miss J Gibbard, Littlecoates Road, Grimsby.

I CAN’T understand why the Government doesn’t abolish MPs’ expenses and instead bring in a straight salary of about £160,000 per year, from which they could all pay their expenses.

I certainly do not condone the MPs who have fiddled their expenses. I think it is disgusting and has given our Parliament a bad name all over the world.

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The world, which once looked up to us, must be horrified at such a scandal. I just hope this won’t happen again and we can get our good name back.

Where is this?

From: Brian Haigh, Mortimer Terrace, Healey, Batley.

I KEEP hearing MPs and MEPs referring to something called Yorkshire and the Humber, perhaps some of your readers could tell me what this thing is?

Is it perhaps a region of England dreamed up by the bureaucrats of the EU, or is it a name that the quangoites have invented? Or maybe it is the same jobsworth at the Boundary Commission who tried to foist Humberside on us.

Save with Dave

From: Ken Holmes, Cliffe Common, Selby.

THE most over-used word in our society is “save”. Save our post offices. Save our village shops. Save our village pubs. Save our old folks’ homes, etc, etc. The latest is “Join the Big Society jolly and Save with Dave” (and Save Our Souls).

Aptly named

From: MD Addy, West Street, Hoyland, Barnsley.

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I FIND it fitting that West Ham won the vote to use the new stadium after the 2012 Olympics. After all, West Ham United is an anagram of “the new stadium”.

Next to go?

From: Ruthven Urquhart, High Hunsley, Cottingham.

Glad tidings – Mubarak ousted in Egypt, so what about Mugabe in Zimbabwe to be next? It is surely time that the Archbishop of York wore his dog collar again.