We need a Government that first and foremost looks after us

I REMEMBER David Cameron saying that he was in favour of localism and that more decisions should be made locally. Why then has a government inspector over-ruled the East Riding of Yorkshire Council decision to refuse a housing development around Beverley on farmland?

The world population already cannot be fed from all the farmland in the world; no responsible government anywhere should be allowing any further encroachment onto farmland. Provision of additional housing should be driven by need not greed and there is minimal need in East Yorkshire due to high unemployment. In my village, many houses from two-bedroom bungalows and houses to mansions have been empty and for sale for years.

It seems that there are no politicians left in the UK who I can trust. We have seen three million immigrants that no one voted for, we have been involved in wars across the world we shouldn’t have been.

Labour ran up the biggest budget deficit in our country’s history that will take generations to eliminate.

Now this government seems more focussed on world affairs, especially Syria and Mali, than its own country. Politicians haven’t even been able to produce a sensible policy on UK power generation where we are only a breath from arriving at crisis point.

The muddled and failed re-organisations brought about by politicians in the last 50 years have left us with a shambles in the health service, local government and so on.

ERYC is run by a cabinet system which has more to do with dictatorship than democracy.

No politician of any party will listen to what ordinary people are saying.

Quite honestly there is more chance of an alien spaceship landing than Mr Cameron fulfilling his promise to give people a vote on the EU. Can someone out there, perhaps Ukip, offer this country a government that first and foremost looks after us?

From: Geoffrey Thorpe, East Bowling, Bradford.

ONE would hope that the MPs and the voters are reading about the savings of the residents of Cyprus. Gordon Brown raided pension funds and now we have the Cyprus government, with the backing of the EU, deciding that they will help themselves to hard-earned savings of people living in Cyprus.

This will probably persuade savers in the EU that the best place for savings is under the bed. The three main parties of this country wish to stay in the EU.

Will what is happening in Cyprus persuade Italy, Portugal. Ireland and Greece to do the same?

The infighting in the coalition of this country could possibly fuel an early General Election and then if the Labour and Lib Dems form a government every saver in this country could kiss goodbye to a part of their savings.

Hopefully the Ukip party will make large waves to persuade voters with any amount of savings to vote Ukip and pull out of Europe.

From: Terry Duncan, Greame Road, Bridlington.

AS a lifelong Tory, does anyone agree with me that Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne are not up to their jobs?

And should they step down before the next General Election for the sake of the UK?

From: ME Wright, Grove Road, Harrogate.

FOOD for thought from Brian Sheridan regarding David Cameron’s public persona as compared to the others (Yorkshire Post, March 13).

However, his caveat on “keeping the dinosaurs and 
‘fruit cakes’ in their place” assumed a most chilling relevance when I heard on the radio that a certain Dr Fox is no longer skulking in the political undergrowth.

From: Brian H Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

JOHN Noton (Yorkshire Post, March 4) who derides Bill Carmichael, and David F Chambers who praises him (Yorkshire Post, March 12) both miss the point.

Your columnist is no joke nor are his views “always rooted in common sense” .

Heartily though I often disagree with him, I always enjoy his consummate conversational prose. He makes it look easy: which it certainly is not.