LETTERS
Lesson for Lefties
As a retired headteacher, I was appalled at teaching assistant sion Rickard’s assertion that, unless given a ‘proper education’, children would grow up to be Tories (Mail). This sad man should get a new job.
Once, in a lesson, a student asked me to reveal which political party I supported. I told him it was none of his business. On his last day at school he repeated the question and got the same answer.
After university, he asked me once again. This time I asked him to tell me which party he thought I supported. He got the answer wrong.
Mike astoN, stourbridge, W. Mids. UnfORTUnATely our school system has been thoroughly infiltrated by left- wingers. such teachers should not be allowed to vent their biased thoughts near children.
sion Rickard is typical of the breed and Ofsted needs to crack down on this.
It is bad enough that we allow schools to run brainwashing classes from all manner of religious factions ( Church of england schools included), let alone political brainwashing from people who lack the intelligence to understand why the Corbyn Massive are just another bunch of seventies throwbacks.
Dave tutt, chatham, kent.
Killer foxes
fOR the past ten years or so I have been phoning the people who put up posters pleading for the return of their beloved ‘missing cat’. I have tried to advise, in the kindest way, that their pet will have been taken by foxes, like so many others.
so I am pleased that, at long last, police have dropped the politically correct view that protects foxes and confirmed this to be true (Mail).
Who knows how much money and police time has been wasted on a probe into a non- existent human cat-killer.
As a countryman, licensed gun owner and sporting game shooter, I have seen numerous feline skulls near fox earths. But no one will believe little Basil Brush can act in a normal predator’s way.
I will stop phoning now that the real culprits have been formally identified by the police.
Are these people who put up ‘missing cat’ posters the same ones who wanted to ban proper fox hunting and control in the first place? If so, how ironic that the truth is out.
David Pope, hay-on-Wye, herefordshire.
Tyranny of bureaucracy
Disastrous decisions behind both the contaminated blood scandal and the Grenfell Tower fire will almost certainly turn out to have the same cause.
The advance of bureaucracy has inserted layers of committees so managers are protected from responsibility and everybody waits for somebody else if an awkward decision is needed.
Although lots of people may be to blame, pinning down only a few scapegoats for prison is seen as solving the problem. Bureaucracy is a tyranny.
r. J. aNDreWs, Farnbrough, hants.
Unhealthy service
sO MUCH for the nHs charter pledging a maximum waiting time of 18 weeks for consultant-led treatment after referral from a GP. I’m long overdue a knee replacement: after seeing my GP, I’m looking at about six to nine months just to get a consultant appointment, then 33 weeks more for surgery.
This means I may be out of pain by february 2020. Perhaps I might be able to nip over to Calais for an operation before we leave the eU.
Mick churchill, Borehamwood, herts.
Why did Tesco jack it in?
IT’s rather ironic that Tesco looked to its past when creating new discount subsidiary, Jack’s.
six months ago, the retailer closed its branch in Burnt Oak, north-West london, although co-founder Jack Cohen opened his first shop nearby and the area has had one ever since.
chris rogers, edgware, Middx.
Ambulance shambles
OUR emergency ambulance service has been reduced to a shambles.
I’ve just returned from James Paget Hospital, Great yarmouth, in norfolk after saying my last farewell to my 85-year-old father.
Our grief as a family has been magnified, as we had to endure watching him writhe in agony on a cold concrete car park floor for an hour- and- a- half waiting for an ambulance.
Having fallen heavily, he broke ribs and punctured a lung, so you can only imagine what pain and suffering he had to go through.
nHs emergency services were once the envy of the world, but the Government has cut so much that they are no longer fit for purpose. stePheN chaNDler,
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Like, what a travesty
I WAs delighted to hear of a new app, gweek, aimed at improving young people’s speech by eliminating the tendency to add ‘ literally’, ‘basically’, ‘innit’ and ‘like’ to every sentence. My heart soared!
The inventor of the app, linguist James Bryce, was interviewed on TV and began nearly every sentence with ‘so...’, followed by the inevitable up-speak. so, literally, I was, like, so disappointed, innit? Tony Towers, Pamington, glos.