More Letters!

"Off with their heads...!"

With barefaced effrontery, three MPs and one peer, members of parties enthusiastically jettisoning all our treasured domestic rights in favour of Brussels rule, resort to our own 1689 Bill of Rights to claim parliamentary exemption from the law.
 
They would prefer to be dealt with by parliament, not the civil courts. Why not both? They are being charged by the civil authorities for alleged crimes in public law, but are surely also open to charges of parliamentary malpractice.

With MPs almost universally held in contempt by the public, and the prospect of a disastrously low electoral turnout, let parliament at least partially redeem itself by grasping this opportunity for a formal investigation. Any of the four found guilty should be dismissed immediately and forfeit their severance payments.

R.D. (Feb.10'10)

 
One wonders just how much attention will be paid at Copenhagen to the underlying, but seldom mentioned cause of co2 emissions; not the carbon consuming units of industry and transport themselves, but the rapidly increasing masses of world population which generate them.
Will we hear from the delegates that by 2050 world population will likely reach 9 billions against the prevailing present total of 6.86 billions? Quite apart from their pollutant effects how are these added populations be fed and watered in a world of shrinking resources?
What this amounts to in demographic imagery is a new city of 1.5 million carbon emitters somewhere in the world every week.
Our population here in Britain is calculated to pass 70 millions in 2029 and 77 millions in 2050. There may be some boneheads in and out of Government who can sleep easy with this news but for me who thinks of three grandchildren it shakes me rigid.

Alastair

Sir,

 BALANCE?

 Commenting on the decision that BNP membership policy is still racist, the Equality and Human Rights Commission stated; “Political parties are obliged to respect the law and not discriminate against people who wish to become members.”

 Why, then, are parties allowed to discriminate among those wishing to become their members of parliament? Setting aside seats for women only is clearly discrimination against men, whereas none currently exists against women.

The House of Commons Speaker’s Conference proposes further elitism in the form of short lists for black and ethnic minority candidates. Presumably these would be further subdivided into male and female preserves.

Such politically correct social engineering has neither logic nor common sense, and can’t possibly achieve “equality” without the logistical and sociological nightmare of separate male and female constituencies.

  Robert Dow (March 16th)

Over the past 25 years we British have been brain-washed into believing that our rivet-bashing days were over and that our bright new economy would be that of an emerging service industry, a high-flying financial sector and a dream-topping of tourism.

Today our service industries are rapidly being outsourced to eastern Europe and India, our banks are floundering in a semi-criminal morass and our tourist industry is gone to pot at the loss of British identity and the punishing cost of life here.

The grievous strategic mistakes on the part of the Lab/Tory Seesaw over the past quarter century are being highlighted every other week now on our vanishing, manufacturing front.

BAe, our last remaining armoured military vehicle manufacturer, has been denied, by Government intervention, the production of the much needed Ascot light tank in favour of General Dynamics in Austria and Spain. The cheeseparers at the Ministry of Defence under the direct intervention of PM Gordon Brown have not added in to their grubby calculations the enormous costs of benefits and welfare due to the 800 skilled engineering staff who are to loose their jobs. The great tradition of military hardware production on Tyneside is at an end and Britain moves that bit nearer to being the Sick Man of Europe.

Meanwhile, in Bath the nice people at Kraft Foods USA have switched the lights off for 400 Cadbury staff.

Who was it said, "British Jobs for British Workers?"

Alastair Harper (March 17)