YP Letters: Does respect for MPs extend to columnists?

From: Bernard Thornton, Ellar Gardens, Menston.
Will the death of Jo Cox engender more respect for MPs?Will the death of Jo Cox engender more respect for MPs?
Will the death of Jo Cox engender more respect for MPs?

Tom Richmond’s excellent tribute to Jo Cox (The Yorkshire Post, June 18) was appropriate and undoubtedly sincere.

Nevertheless, his call for “an ungrateful public” to show greater appreciation of the work done by MPs in general did raise an eyebrow. Can we now hope that Tom’s new-found respect will mean, for instance, no further references to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as a ‘pipsqueak’?

From: Gerald Hodgson, Spennithorne, Leyburn.

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I HOPE there will be an appropriate recognition of the courage of Bernard Kenny who went to the aid of Jo Cox, was injured and might well have been killed. Very little seems to have been said about him or his brave action.

From: Brian Lewis, Pontefract.

RE the statue of Joseph Priestley in Birstall. No one seems to 
have mentioned that the 
statue around which the 
flowers for Jo Cox cluster is a memorial to a democrat and freedom fighter who, at the 
end of the 18th century, had 
his house burned down and 
his scientific apparatus 
smashed by a mob who chanted “Traitor”.

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