Letters - Monday, January 11, 2021

In response to Chris Webb’s letter (Your Say, January 8)it’s great to see Chris Webb praising this Government!

I agree with him that this government did loads to help the homeless during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

After being elected not only did Boris pledge to get Brexit done, but to end homelessness. It doesn’t take much googling to discover the Government has helped 29,000 people with settled or emergency accommodation since the start of the pandemic and he’s given £700m for homelessness this year.

In September Blackpool Council received an extra £136k to help to continue to support these people. And the homeless haven’t been abandoned for winter as there’s £10m for councils to support them through the winter.

I think Government, the council, and all the groups and charities have worked together brilliantly to get a roof over peoples heads. Now these people have been identified I think everyone needs to keep working together to solve the underlying issues instead of using homeless people as a political weapon.

N Cunningham

via email

Politics

Trump still has the nuclear codes

After watching those disgraceful scenes on TV in Washington, which were probably watched by every dictator and despot around the world (they must be laughing their socks off), it’s clear the sooner that trump leaves office the better.

Nancy Pelosi, who is the speaker of the house, wants the vice president mike pence to invoke Article 25 against trump, stating that the president is no longer fit to serve, and failing that for trump to be impeached.

Time is running out to do these things but remember one thing, this flakey president is still walking about with the nuclear launch codes and his finger is within reach of the button. You simply do not know what this man will do next.

For some unknown reason he still thinks that he has been robbed of the election and winding up his so called “supporters” he tells them to march on capitol hill without knowing what the end result will be. Did he expect them to be polite and knock on the door of the capitol? Then he realises he has gone too far, self-preservation kicks in and he slags off his rent-a-mob in the vain hope that he cannot be held to be complicit in what they did .

M Tipper

address supplied

Politics

Biden can’t come soon enough

Donald Trump’s days in office have been a disgrace. They have sullied the presidency, perhaps permanently.

Several of the past incumbents of the White House have been anything but upright citizens. Grant was mired in corruption as was Harding. Nixon deserved his nickname ‘tricky Dick’ while Bill Clinton escaped impeachment by a whisker.

Unlike Trump, none however provoked, or encouraged, riotous and violent behaviour by their supporters. By his childish rants about electoral fraud, a conspiracy nonsense that the facts have shattered, Trump has encouraged a populist and incendiary atmosphere throughout several States that bears an uncanny resemblance to Hitler’s manipulation of Germans in the 1930s.

He is a bully, crude, arrogant, and a misogynist. He is a very bad loser. He is unworthy of any high office. At times his mental stability has been in doubt.

No President has changed his cabinet so often. No President has been so severely criticised by those he sacked, some after only days in office. Not one of the many books published about him has been anything but highly critical of his wild, at times atrocious, behaviour.

His lack of knowledge about international issues has caused severe embarrassment in diplomatic circles, while his reaction to the current pandemic has ranged from ignorance to outright nonsense.

His speech that led to the disgraceful riots around and in the Capitol on January 6 was deliberately inflammatory. He should be ashamed but I doubt he knows the meaning of the word.

The inauguration of Biden on January 25 cannot come quickly enough for millions of decent, law abiding Americans.

Trump should be forever treated with utter contempt. That he was ever elected in the first place scars the democratic electoral process.

Dr Barry Clayton

Thornton Cleveleys