Stop the Covid ‘blame game’, back Boris and get Brexit done – Yorkshire Post Letters

BEFORE any serious developments and discussions can take place on levelling up between different parts of the country, there are two elements that need to be dwelt with urgently.

The Covid 19 pandemic is obviously a very worrying and dangerous threat on a global basis which, sadly, looks set to be with us for many months until a vaccine is available to protect us.

In the meantime we need to get all politicians, local and national, and the media, to stop political ‘blame calling’ and to be constructive for a change and do all they can to protect the lives of all health workers and the general public.

The second emergency is to get Brexit done.

The referendum in 2016 on the single issue of Brexit, produced more votes than those cast at any general election and the result was, of course, a significant majority, both in votes and on a constituency basis, in favour of leaving the EU.

The Conservative majority gained in the last election reinforced the country’s determination to leave the European Union.

Sir Keir Starmer said he accepted the result but neither he nor the many Labour, Liberal and some Conservative MPs from constituencies voting ‘Leave’ have supported the country’s wishes in negotiations with EU officials to get a fair deal.

Their neglect of their duties in this could well lead to a ‘No Deal’ which they all claim not to want.

They need to act now and publicly support the Government, and their own constituencies, against the undemocratic EU.

Only then will the people in the North of England be able to push for a levelling up.

From: Heather Stroud, Gilling East.

IF I were intent on destroying a society, then top of my list would be to encourage people to snitch on one another – neighbour against neighbour, friend against friend.

When the Government encouraged such behaviour, the police were inundated with ‘snitch’ calls.

So much so that their switchboard was overwhelmed.

I didn’t imagine that what I had witnessed played out in totalitarian regimes would ever happen here – certainly not in my lifetime.

But here it is. We are living at a time when a child hugging a grandparent can be deemed as a crime. There is no longer a place for individual risk assessment. Even George Orwell didn’t predict that.

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James Mitchinson