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Letter of the week.
Dear Editor
I can see Robert Jenrick is raising his profile; his latest stunt, asking fare dodgers why they feel they don’t need to pay at London Underground stations, is but one example. It’s not going unnoticed, and it is useful stuff, but one does wonder whether he’s raising his profile or the Conservatives’? Not being bogged down with the running of the party, Jenrick is emerging as far more likeable than Kemi Badenoch, but one does wonder whether he’s doing all this with the aim to leave the blues behind for Reform. I suppose we have four years to work it out.
Bill Kenwright
London
Jenrick ignoring jab injustice
Dear Editor
There is something very ‘fake’ about Robert Jenrick. He’s my MP, and he has ignored over 30 emails pointing out the covid vaccine harms in our constituency. They are still jabbing in our chemists and probably elsewhere.
This ‘down with the people’ and ‘tell them what they want to hear’ stuff doesn’t somehow work. Or is it just me?
Dick Tate
Notes on modern society
Dear Editor,
Most contributors to The Conservative Woman are concerned with politics in the widest sense, not just encompassing the current political situation, but ethics and morality more generally.
There is a consensus as to the failures of various governments and the need for reform, but not necessarily the election of the Reform Party.
This general agreement with the usual outrage at the latest political calamity hides a much more serious issue. Our basic lack of kindness and our complete willingness to live in a world where half-truth, avoidance of responsibility and deception are all perfectly acceptable.
I am not talking here of people whose living is made in professions notorious for these practices, I am talking about you and me.
We raise our voices in strident tones against obvious deviations from what we consider as acceptable, but beneath this, are we behaving any better? Often it looks like our indignation is completely fake, because deep down we either do not ourselves conduct our lives more commendably or are just not bothered by the misconduct of others. Thus, we are complicit in this absence of any standards.
I could provide many examples, but I will give just one. George Orwell, you may not agree with his politics, but he enrolled and fought in the Spanish Civil War because he believed in equality and democracy. How many of us would be willing to do the same?
We live in comfort that our ancestors could only dream of and yet we seem to have abandoned basic tenets that ensure a happy society. I do not accept the simplistic argument that the fall of Christianity has caused this situation; it is more associated with us being spoilt and overindulged.
If published, I very much welcome opinions on this subject, to which I would happily respond.
Robert Worms
Totnes, Devon
Condemning the innocent for clicks
Dear Editor
I was appalled to read in the Telegraph that one of its columnists believes Lucy Connolly ought to be in jail over her tweet, or should I say ‘crime’? An odd line for a family paper to take. Or was it just clickbait?
Jilly Fitzgerald
Dorset
Cheshire is losing the war on drugs
Dear Editor
In Cheshire, some 55.5 per cent of people caught in possession of hard drugs, such as cocaine and heroin, were let off without any criminal sanction.
Also in Cheshire, unbelievably, 91 per cent of all reported crime is not detected. This is scandalous.
Why aren’t other politicians and political parties in Cheshire speaking out about this?
The Cheshire Chief Constable and the Police Commissioner should be sacked. Nationally, there has been a six-fold increase in drug users escaping prosecution since 2016, when the proportion was only 7.5 per cent. In some forces, more than 80 per cent caught with cocaine, heroin or other class A drugs escaped any criminal punishment.
Whatever happened to the ‘War on Drugs’????
Brian Silvester
Crewe
Hassle at the post office
Dear Editor
I have just returned from my local post office having been asked on behalf of HMRC to give my name, postcode and house number in order to send a ‘Large Letter’ to Belfast. I also had to declare what was inside the package. Apparently, this is something new as of this month.
I queried why they needed my house number and the lady serving me said that it was so that HMRC could track things going in and out. I pointed out that Northern Ireland is part of our country, so nothing is ‘going out’ if I’m sending something to Belfast. Why is it any different to sending something to Birmingham?
Was I right to feel annoyed?
Annie Rees
A reason to be cheerful!
Dear Editor
I’m very pleased that Tommy Robinson is freed. I hope it sets an example for the entire world.
Roger Soderstedt
Palmdale, California
