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Letter of the week
Dear Editor
That Keir Starmer, he’s such a generous chap. He just can’t help giving things away. First it was freedom of speech, then it was the Chagos Islands, next our fishing rights.
Whatever next? Best to check we are still the UK and haven’t become part of greater FR or DE – oh wait!
Kathleen Carr
Sheffield
The myth-busting miracle workers of America
Dear Editor
Thank you for printing the article by Daniel Jupp, ‘Trump explodes the myth of evil South African white people’. I was aware of the awful murder of the beautiful young white woman but not of the death of her grieving mother.
God bless Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk.
A. Dixon
Haunted house development? Ask Reeves!
Dear Editor
The latest idiotic hike to the special stamp duty land tax (SDLT), which landlords and anyone buying a second property must pay, will kill off the potential to bring lots of new homes back into use.
This clueless government, just like the last one, seems to think that by making it harder for developers to buy property, they will somehow magically be bought by first time buyers instead.
This is an insane, magic-beans type of thinking.
Lots of landlord-developers do a bit of development as well as doing standard buy-to-lets and then ‘farming the let properties’ for income once they have done them up.
Some landlord-developers will keep some of the properties they have done up, to let them out for a steady income, and they will sell others. It depends on what they want to do at the time.
But first-time buyers will not be able to buy dilapidated properties anyway, because mortgage lenders will not lend on derelict property or any property without a functioning kitchen or bathroom. By increasing the SDLT premium that anyone buying a second property must pay, this government has only acted to deter a lot of would-be investors.
So, more property than ever will sit empty and derelict.
Well done, Rachel Reeves. I do wonder what they do on the PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) courses at Oxford that lots of these politicos seem to have studied at ‘unah’.
I conclude they must do a lot of the two Ps and bugger all of the E. Perhaps the only ‘E’s they learn about are the ones stuffed down necks at night clubs?
D Lawrenson
Time to drain the swamp
Dear Editor,
I watched Ezra Levant’s report on the events happening in the Tommy Robinson contempt of court case. Once again, Rebel News did a great job. What has always amazed me is that no one anywhere in the courts or the press has ever said that the content of Tommy’s film was untrue. Why is that? Are they afraid that it might be? Surely any reporter worth his salt would be on this story before making presumptive statements about Tommy Robinson?
It is clear to see that the ‘State’ is quite literally terrified of Tommy Robinson, and that he has a large following around the world now. There may be some unsavoury characters amongst his followers but, by and large, I would say that the overwhelming majority of them are fair-minded everyday people that can see the corruption in the Government, the judiciary, police forces and local governments, and are quite honestly sick of it.
I believe that we need a total reform of every institute in the United Kingdom; in the words of Donald J, ‘Drain the Swamp’.
As Starmer has seen it fit to drag us back closer to the EU cabal, I suggest that Mr Robinson take advantage of this and use the ECHR. If a man can stop his deportation due to his son not being able to get the correct type of burger, surely Mr Robinson has a case against the British Government and the Prison Governor?
Keep up the good work
Mark Lawrence
Cool it with the climate paranoia!
Dear Editor
This week’s BBC climate drivel said:
‘Temperatures in the seas around the UK and Ireland have soared in the past week with some areas now 4°c warmer than normal, with potential implications for marine life and people going swimming.
‘The heatwave is most intense off the west coast of Ireland as well as pockets off the coasts of Cornwall and Devon, according to scientists at the National Oceanography Centre and the Met Office.
‘Sea temperatures in April and the first half of May were the highest recorded during those months since monitoring began 45 years ago.
‘Climate change is causing oceans to warm around the globe and is making marine heatwaves like this one more likely.’
The writer obviously had not considered the North Sea coast and eastern England, where sea and air temperatures have been decidedly cool during the recent ‘heatwave’. At the beginning of the week, the air temperature at Cromer and Hunstanton reached a maximum of 12°c.
How much longer will the MSM continue with these lies?
James Dent
Justice for Lucy Campbell
Dear Editor
Please will you support Rupert Lowe’s parliamentary motion on Lucy Campbell?
Lucy was wrongly advised by her lawyers to plead guilty to an offence which she states she had no intention of committing: she has a hitherto-unblemished record, and the mothers of the children, of many different races, whom she has cared for as a childminder vouch both for her kindness and for her lack of all racist tendencies; she poses no threat whatsoever to the public; and she is occupying a place in prison which could more appropriately be allocated to one of the many racially-orientated gang rapists with clan affiliations in towns and cities throughout this country who unaccountably remain free to pursue their atrocities against predominantly white, working-class children.
Compassion and common-sense alike demand that she should be allowed to return to her family.
Gillian Swanson
Detaching the EU leech
Dear Editor
As the new ‘world order’ evolves, the dollar is losing its pre-eminence with likely consequences for us all.
Another former bastion of global trading is surely the EU, which has seen its share of world GDP decline from 27 per cent in 1992 to 16 per cent now, despite adding 17 new member states. Its decline and inertia have consequences as well, as the EU and the US together is no longer the trading force it once was as newer, more agile rivals come along.
I ran my own marketing company for years and one of the most fundamental maxims was that the definition of marketing was ‘providing what the customer wants, profitably’, which struck me again with the news of Starmer’s EU reset.
The EU has changed dramatically since its inception and is an utterly different organisation to the one we joined some 50 years ago. Over time, our focus has switched to trading in services rather than physical products, such as manufactured goods. The EU was set up to facilitate manufacturing and agriculture, and to this day services remain a blind spot of the single market, so the UK is a bit like a square peg in a round hole.
The UK has a persistent trade deficit with the EU of some £100billion annually. With the rest of the world, we have a surplus of £65billion. At one time, the size of the trade deficit was headline news; today, it seems disregarded. At some point, it needs to be recognised as a huge debt which needs to be repaid or covered by inward investment or selling of bonds of some sort. As our burgeoning national debt surely illustrates, we need to take measures to bring down that debt and the huge amount of interest beginning to financially cripple us. Surely the maxim of UK plc should reflect that, whilst we need customers, they need to be profitable ones, which the EU clearly isn’t?
Isn’t it time to concentrate our efforts on bigger, faster growing and less hidebound markets, and put much less reliance on the EU, which is frankly costing us a fortune and are nothing like the ‘close friends’ that some fondly believe?
Tony Brown
Devon
Scorching earth to lower emissions
Dear Editor
The Daily Telegraph said this week that the PM has agreed to raise UK Carbon Tax from £41 per tonne to the EU’s £59 per tonne, i.e. a 44 per cent increase.
Since UK industrial energy costs are already higher than most other countries’, it will sound the final death knell of our industry.
It wouldn’t be so bad if our Net Zero targets were to be deferred to match those of the EU, but dynamic alignment will only make the UK even less competitive.
Next, we will see EU inspectors arriving to check the provenance of UK manufactured goods (never mind farm produce) to verify that components are from low-carbon sources.
The PM’s reset looks increasingly like a scorched-earth policy than anything else.
Roger J Arthur
Two important climate statistics the BBC forgot
Dear Editor
The Conservative Woman has been excellent at covering the conflicting views on a changing climate in both articles and letters. However, there is one thing that some of the press, the media and the BBC fails to do, and that is to publish two very important statistics. They should be highlighting, say every month, the greenhouse gases caused by wars and the manufacture of weapons and the rebuilding of the destroyed infrastructure. Then, there is Mother Nature creating greenhouse gases with her earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, typhoons and more. Surely the media should be highlighting the millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases wars and that Mother Nature creates? It might encourage readers and listeners to buy an expensive EV and heat pump and cut down on meat and stop flying and all the hundreds of other things politicians and the climate experts have told us we must do to ‘save the planet’. Let’s get started.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
