When will we get MPs and churchmen who speak for us?

THE more I listen to the grumblings of the coalition and especially the Conservative Party, the more convinced I am that the concept of a coalition government is doomed to failure.

However, what I really feel is that none of the main political parties have any true concept of how to run the country to the benefit of the population – in fact over the years they all seem to have lurched from one catastrophe to another while blindly groping their way ahead and hoping, by some miracle, something might turn up to bail them out, while always blaming the previous government.

The sensible person when confronted with a cash flow problem ceases to spend on luxuries and unnecessary items, yet this Government persists in squandering money while squeezing essentials such as the NHS and those on benefits.

Apparently it’s fine to have allowed the MoD to overspend by billions on bandages and non-essential equipment; it’s fine to give millions to part-finance a new telescope to explore deep space; it’s fine to spend billions on a Trident replacement and it’s fine to give billions in aid to countries that a) don’t need it, and b) use the money to finance anti-western terrorism!

Let’s face it – the fact that we have been involved in several wars such as Iraq and the existing nightmare of Afghanistan, as well as spending millions per day to keep the Falklands, is a constant drain on resources, yet punishing those who live in “social housing” by charging a bedroom tax, fleecing the motorist by eye-watering fuel tax and taking away the winter fuel allowance for pensioners is really rather petty.

What this country needs is not more affordable housing, but more factories and businesses to give people jobs – they then might be able to afford the homes they desire. Immigration needs to be curtailed and aligned to that of Canada and Australia who try to protect their own culture and workforce – and we need to begin buying British rather than foreign in an effort to protect whatever jobs we have left!

Come the next general election in 2015 the incoming party (certainly it won’t be either the Conservatives or the Liberals) will no doubt give us the same old tired rhetoric to the effect that “the last Government left us such a mess we will have to make cuts...”

When will we ever, ever get a government that knows what it’s doing? That cares about us? That isn’t intent on keeping its fat-cat associates and benefactors making billions at our expense? That will one day make Great Britain the lovely place that it used to be?

From: Godfrey Bloom, Ukip MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

IT did not take very long for another Archbishop of Canterbury to involve himself in politics. It looks like another government own goal (Yorkshire Post, March 11).

With 20 bishops in the House 
of Lords, our amending 
chamber, one is entitled to ask whom do they represent? Ukip with nearly three million voters has three Lords. Where is the Church of England’s democratic mandate?

Is it now time to consider the disestablishment of the CoE?

From: Tim Mickleburgh, Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.

IN his riposte to the Archbishop of Canterbury and others, Iain Duncan-Smith forgets that we have 2.5 million jobless in the country.

So people can’t simply find work to escape poverty, and have to rely on benefits in order to survive.

What’s more, those of working age will have to face paying council tax for the first time. Thus their income will fall in absolute, let alone real terms.

Meanwhile Osborne is reluctant to take action on the obscene bonuses paid to bankers. We’re all in it together? I don’t think so!