Letters - Saturday, October 31, 2020

Even the lawmakers don’t know the law
See letter from Stephen Place from the Alliance for Democracy and Freedom Party spokesman for Law & OrderSee letter from Stephen Place from the Alliance for Democracy and Freedom Party spokesman for Law & Order
See letter from Stephen Place from the Alliance for Democracy and Freedom Party spokesman for Law & Order

With so many different restrictions in force and changes being made almost daily, it will be of no surprise that people have lost all faith in our Government.

More concerning is that people can, and are, falling foul of these restrictions and therefore the law, on a regular basis.

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By September 22, a total of 18,646 fines, also known as fixed penalty notices, had been issued to errant members of the public nationally. Currently more than 50 per cent remain unpaid.

Fast forward to the week beginning October 19.

We have the senior police officer leading the police’s response to Covid, Assistant Chief Constable Owen Wetherill, telling MPs that they, the police, have no idea about the restrictions and as they vary by geographical area so much, they are in essence unenforceable.

Similarly, Robert Jenrick MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when interviewed on Sky News by Kay Burley, had no idea about the restrictions and asked people to look at the Government website for clarity.

Jenrick was later seen in a sourdough pizza restaurant holding a meeting briefing business leaders. Is this against the rules?

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No one from the Government could successfully shed light on that point.

Kit Malthouse, MP, Minister for Policing, who appeared the next day on the same show, clearly had no idea about the requirements for business meetings or any of the restrictions for gyms in Greater Manchester.

It is very easy to mock at the ridiculousness of the situation, but this is very serious as people’s livelihoods, families and homes are at stake here.

We cannot have one rule for some and one for the rest.

It is unforgivable that the law makers and the law enforcers have no idea about what they are doing and what they are imposing on the general public.

Stephen Place

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Alliance for Democracy and Freedom Party spokesman for Law & Order

Poverty

MPs, look at your morals

This hurts – praising a Manchester United player!

Three hundred and twenty two MPs voted for children’s poverty.

I know, it’s hard to believe. How low can these people stoop?

While all their bars in the Houses of Parliament are subsidised by us, the taxpayer, they refuse to continue to feed children of less well-off families this winter. Many will have recently lost their jobs .

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Johnson and co, you need to rethink your priorities and examine your morals and your conscience!

Ask yourselves, if there was a General Election around the corner, would you feed 1.3 million children?

You bet your life you would!

You gave Marcus an MBE and publicly praised him, then you deny him his simple request to pay for half-term and winter holiday school meals.

In many people’s eyes that makes you a certain hypocrite.

Sadly it sounds like the return of the Nasty Party?

Has Marcus given up?

No way, he can’t turn his back on starving children, like our leaders can.

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Rashford has been supported by many individual local businesses and local councils that say we can’t let children starve, it’s our duty.

What a pity the Government has missed the opportunity to demonstrate it has decency and humanity.

However, its pet projects, such as HS2 (£70bn plus), are clearly more important than children’s welfare.

They have given £12bn Test Track and Trace contracts to their Tory chums, which is still a ‘World Beating Failure’, but refuse to pay relative ‘peanuts’ to children.

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MP David Morris and his 321 pals should be ashamed of themselves.

How do they sleep at night, I wonder ?

I assume all the heartless MPs will be donating their £3,000 plus pay rises to children, who need and deserve to be fed much more than MPs – many of whom are millionaires – need a top-up of their fat wallets.

Remember Rashford said, “This is not politics, it is humanity.”

Little wonder many of us prefer footballers over certain selfish unfeeling politicians.

Graeme Chapman MBE

via email

Immigration

We’re left with no option

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I am in full agreement with correspondent YW. Why would genuine seekers of asylum, supposedly fleeing for fear of their lives, bypass safe countries to come here (Your Say, October 20)?

It has recently been reported that more than four in 10 male migrants claim to be children because the rules are different.

With no proof of age documentation, it is up to social workers to decide if they are children or not, since physical examinations are not allowed.

Would anyone want these men mixing with their children? The UK has given at least £164m to France.

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France is asking for another £30m to stop people smuggling, which it could control if it wanted to.

They are obviously laughing at us as they pocket the money and escort migrants into British waters, leaving us with no option but to impose tougher measures to identify true asylum seekers.

CW

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