Strong and decisive Government is now needed for Britain

ARE we completely mad in this country? We learn that wind farms have been given £34m to switch off in bad weather and two days last week saw taxpayers (ie ourselves) pay £400,000 to energy firms for doing absolutely nothing. Why?

We also learn how the EU squanders our aid millions. Some projects are £800,000 to Morocco to make a water park and tourist complex, Iceland £20m to prepare them to join the EU, Russia £24,000 for an arts project in St Petersburg, China £30m in a country with 150 billionaires and Argentina £9.5m in aid despite still being after the Falkland 
Islands. Why?

Worst of all perhaps is that we were – until last Friday – still housing the miscreant Abu Hamza who is now claiming he has health problems. Why?

It is all rather worrying and unsettling. If only we had strong and decisive government but we have not. We are being led by weak ineffective people who have no real knowledge of the real world.

The Opposition want to spend money we cannot afford on housing. How much more are we supposed to tolerate?

From: D Wood, Thorntree Lane, Goole.

WHILE most senior politicians aren’t to be trusted as far as you could throw them, Nick Clegg truly takes the biscuit.

In the last couple of weeks alone he was openly courting the Labour party as potential government partners after the next General Election, and yet still claiming to be committed to the present coalition.

This by itself should have been enough for David Cameron to show him and the rest of the Lib Dems the door.

In your front page article (Yorkshire Post, September 26) 
he is quoted as saying: “I know more than most Liberal Democrats, what it means 
to fight against the mendacity and lies of Labour and 
their trade union funded campaigns.”

This surely displays the hypocrisy of this man, a man whose own broken promises bring a new meaning to the 
word mendacity.

On the plus side, with 
Mr Clegg as leader and Paddy Ashdown as campaign manager, we should just about be rid of the Lib Dems for good at the next election.

From: Rodney Atkinson, Meadowfield Road, Stocksfield, Northumberland.

LABOUR Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander, reflecting the abysmally ignorant eurofanaticism of the Labour Party, has warned against “shrinking our market from 500 million to 60 million” by leaving the EU.

Even a schoolboy could teach Mr Alexander that only by leaving the 27-country European Union could we join the real Europe of 45 countries – not to mention the circa 180-country world wide economic market (under the World Trade Organisation). The two richest countries in Europe, Norway and Switzerland, are outside the European Union with full access to trade with the EU.

That is the status Britain would have if we left the EU – a self- governing democracy trading with everyone.

It says a lot about the Labour Party that they oppose democracy, self-government and free trade.

From: Coun Colin Challen, Labour member for Castle Ward, Scarborough Borough Council.

IT was good of Tory MP 
Charlie Elphicke to share with us his thoughts on Labour’s economic record (Yorkshire Post, Octber 5).

What he failed to explain was why, until late 2008 the Conservative Party backed Labour’s spending commitments? Borrowing until the recession struck was not out of synch with previous governments, Tory or Labour. Mr Elphicke is sadly being rather economical with the actuality.