Letters - Wednesday December 16 2020

As a responsible dog owner, I am astounded as to why some other dog owners go to the trouble of picking up their dog’s mess, only to then either drop it along footpaths and hedge bottoms, or throw on to, or over, fencing and into trees.

I’m totally perplexed at the lack of thought of these people.

Please clean up your dog’s mess responsibly.

There are plenty of bins around, or take it away with you and put it in your own bin.

You all should, by rights, be ashamed of the way you treat everyone’s public spaces, which are there for all to enjoy.

Not to mention you give all dog owners a bad reputation, which I would say the majority of us definitely do not deserve. Please change your ways.

Trees and hedgerows are important to wildlife and are beautiful without the hanging bags.

It’s disgusting.

Frustrated

dog owner

Politics

Taking the knee is wrong and sinful

This whole taking the knee ritual by the Premier League is getting beyond a joke.

If people pay to watch sport they pay to watch sport.

Black Lives Matter is an ultra left wing organisation that makes even Jeremy Corbyn look like a liberal.

They are violent and they believe in defunding the police.

The mainstream media blamed Donald Trump when BLM went on the rampage earlier this year but since Joe Biden won the presidency, even though the violence goes on, their MSM friends like CNN have fell rather silent.

I wonder why?

The ultimate reason for not taking the knee though is biblical.

Taking the knee is worldly, is sinful, and is idolatry.

The Bible says that we should bow down to no other gods other than the one real God who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.

Such disobedience is sin and there is a price to be paid for such sin.

True, Jesus Christ paid the price on the cross but anyone bowing down to idols then it is clearly obvious that they cannot be in a personal relationship with Him.

Geoffrey Brooking

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Politics

Boris has got us out of the EU prison

As an old ex-Labour Party member I’m getting ‘sick to the back teeth’ of listening to the totally undemocratic Sir Keir Starmer whinging on about Boris Johnson. Just to remind Starmer that Boris did get “Brexit done”. With or without a deal, he got us out of the EU ‘prison’ as requested by the electorate.

terry palmer

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politics

PM has got us out of the EU prison

We voted to leave the EU years ago. Nowhere in the dictionary definition of the word ‘leave’ is there any mention of having to make a deal before leaving. It defines the word as “to go away from finally and permanently”. Only then can deals be entered into on an even footing.

Phyllis Capstick

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Brexit

Over-egging Boris’ oven-ready deal

In referring to Boris Johnson’s much-vaunted oven-ready Brexit trade deal, I fear some are over-egging the pudding. It was the Withdrawal Agreement that was oven-ready and it duly extricated us from our EU membership on January 31.

That agreement included a political declaration which contained a list of possible ingredients for the trade deal, but the EU wouldn’t even let us into the kitchen to discuss the final recipe until after we had left, so a trade deal couldn’t have been oven-ready at the time of the election.

Thomas W Jefferson

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Brexit Gunboat horror

It was with disbelief that this Government seeks to break a treaty if, or when, it suits them. But despite this, and much else besides, it was with horror to read that the Prime Minister is resorting to “gunboat diplomacy”.

Geoffrey Care

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