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Reader says voters chose Labour due to being fed up with 'almost every Conservative policy'
Chris (MetroTalk, Mon) says Labour won the election because people were fed up with the Tories failing to deport illegal immigrants.
This may be true for some voters but it is an incredibly simplistic take and clearly influenced by the lens of the current political situation.
Labour won because people were fed up with almost every Conservative policy that, over 14 years, made the gap between rich and poor ever wider.
It was cuts to social services, the police and the NHS plus a refusal to increase tax on the richest.
The problem was not and is not immigrants. For anyone – of any political affiliation – to say so is to seek to pull the wool over the eyes of the UK population. Helen Alford, Sheffield.
For this reader, current Labour government ‘inspires no one’
Labour may go back on its pledge not to raise taxes (Metro, Mon). No doubt that will cause an uproar. But it need not.
What you are supposed to do in government is take the people along with you by brilliant, inspiring, speeches, making your case that convinces people. Think Churchill. Thatcher. Even Blair.
Shouting ‘£22billion black hole’ over and over and blaming the Tories for ‘14 years of failure’ when it wasn’t the entire 14 years, (given they spent the first few years cleaning up Brown’s Labour mess) inspires no one! Kevin, Lewisham
Farage is, ironically, responsible for lack of legal protection for swans
Further to Nigel Farage’s claims of migrants supposedly eating swans.
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Jane (MetroTalk, Mon) is correct to say the birds, among other species, are protected by the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act. Ironically, this act was introduced almost as a condition of EU membership. So, logically Farage should promise to repeal it.
Of course, the swans would lose their legal protection but he knows they’re not being poached. He’s just regurgitating Donald Trump’s claim about migrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. Trump knows that was a lie, which is why he hasn’t done anything to save those animals.
One bonus of repealing the act would be an economic boost to struggling coastal resorts. They could start seaside safaris for tourists to shoot pests like seagulls… Geoff Collier, Saltaire
‘Whatever comes out of Nigel’s mouth is a case of him not engaging brain beforehand’, says reader
Sir Keir Starmer accusing Nigel Farage of racist policies (MetroTalk, Mon) is a bit too strong.
What he should have said was that whatever comes out of Nigel’s mouth is a case of him not engaging brain beforehand.
The unthinkable idea of Nigel becoming PM would end with this country becoming divided, just like the US. God help us all if that ever happened. Starmer isn’t doing so well but Farage is not the answer. Charles, Gateshead
Is Starmer a ‘rabbit in the headlights’?
I am a former Labour voter and ashamed of our government. They seem so out of touch.
Starmer seems like a rabbit in the headlights. He talked up digital ID to take the focus off the party conference. He removed home secretary Yvette Cooper to move attention away from their dismal handling of the immigration issue.
With Angela Rayner now gone as his deputy, this gives him the excuse to wave away the pledge to build 1.5million homes.
The economy is stagnant, pensioners are under the cosh again, wealth-makers are discouraged through increased employer NI… the list goes on.
And replacing Starmer with Andy Burnham? The latter wasted millions on useless emissions road signs in Manchester – but at least we have lots of nice newly painted buses there and that only cost half a million. John Ramsden, Bury
Reader says reform do not represent British values
Farage and Reform UK drape themselves in our flag but don’t represent British values. They spread misinformation not truth, division not unity and hate not compassion. Guy W, London
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