Durker tales are what our local press is all about
EXCELLENT article on the goings-on at the Durker Roods Hotel from Nick Lavigueur
April 19). This is the kind of article that a local press can do and should do more often. But it requires time and money to pursue. These are precious resources that are difficult to maintain with a sharp decline in the circulation of local newspapers.
An old but true adage is that when local newspapers fold then corruption expands. Corruption is traditionally kept in check by the coverage of local affairs both political and business.
Corruption has become less about direct financial inducement than influence, which eventually leads to important positions, better jobs and, finally, more money.
We see it at national level with the traditional sleaze of the Tories and Boris, which with the massive Covid contracts parcelled out to friends has been brought into the open.
In local politics nationally we can see a, not illegal but definitely an unhealthy, nexus of housing developers, landowners and councils who force through the building of poor quality, badly designed, over-priced, carbonemitting private estates on green land.
We really need to support local newspapers as vigilant watchdogs.
Long time no MP see
YET again I have to ask, where is Barry Sheerman? Apart from a couple of pathetic notes in the
we haven’t seen hide or hair of him since the photo showing him having the vaccine in London. Why had he gone down there?
He was supposed to be isolating in Huddersfield but suddenly, he’s beggared off to the big city, leaving Huddersfield without an active MP.
We regularly hear from Jason McCartney and other MPs but when it comes to Bazza, here today, gone tomorrow.
There have been a number of issues that have come up in our town recently but not a word from this man.
I truly hope that when the time comes, people will remember this at the polling stations. Sheerman stated his ambition is to be the ‘Father of the House,’ but he does not deserve it.