YP Letters: Time that rail union barons are shown who is the boss

ONE has to ask the question. Who runs this country? Is it the Government or is it the unelected union leaders who take their members where they should never be led?

The RMT bosses were never elected by the voters of this country and are holding the railway companies to ransom by striking, and putting the electorate in trouble.

It is high time that Mrs May and her government got to work and make laws that, while they protect the rail workers, also protect the travelling public from the actions of the anti-social union bosses.

Why can’t the Government seek injunctions to stop unions making life miserable for workers and holiday-makers?

From: Tim Mickleburgh, Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.

I MUST take issue with the claim that Labour has a “problem” with women (The Yorkshire Post, August 13). Half the Shadow Cabinet are female, while Angela Eagle was simply not up to the job of being a potential Prime Minister regardless of her sex.

Meanwhile at local level the inequitable policy of all-women shortlists still applies, even if it benefits middle class women and discriminates against working class men.

From: Hugh Rogers, Messingham Road, Ashby.

AN interesting version of democracy from Don Burslam (The Yorkshire Post, August 15). He doesn’t mind which way you vote as long as he approves of why you do it. Voting from the heart, rather than the head, is clearly something he finds hard to understand, but along with all the other frustrated Remainers who relied on frightening voters into submission, he’ll just have to get used to it, won’t he?

To be fair, though, we should be grateful to Don for reminding us of at least one positive outcome – the possibility, however faint, that Scotland will leave the UK and look for handouts from Brussels instead of London.

From: Brian H Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

AS an inveterate saver, I nevertheless welcome the recent cut in interest rates.

It must be very difficult for young people to make their way in the times of zero hour contracts and the difficulty of getting on the housing ladder. I wonder if the pensioners who are always whinging have children or grandchildren? I also hope that the triple lock protection of pensions can be abandoned now that it has done its job.