We can learn from Japan how to work together

IT was heartening to read the letter (Yorkshire Post, April 6) under the heading “Ten lessons from a nation as it grieves” from Michael Stephen Mycroft.

Michael’s 10 commandments – for want of a more fitting word of praise – indicated the solidarity, conformity, uniformity, loyalty and sacrifice; in general the total comradeship of the Japanese people after the earthquake and tsunami in March, whose losses, both of life and possessions are, to say the least, catastrophic.

Shouldn’t this make the people of our country ashamed of themselves? Is David Cameron correct when asking us, in the UK, to work together in the common cause – to fight the country’s bankruptcy problem? Or will the greed we have and still are seeing, devour all of us?

Our problems are small compared to Japan’s and yet we shall take much longer than the Japanese to overcome them, unless we work together.

We must do so not as government – for as the old Yorkshireman would say “They talk a lot and say nowt” – but as a nation.

We can do without the oppositions and the snarling backbenchers. Unite in one common cause and let the greedy choke on their untold accumulated wealth.