Leicester Mercury

Great again, PM should now get rid of peers

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RESPECT or loathe him, one must admit our trusted PM has succeeded where others have miserably failed to release us from the shackles of the EU’s self-opinionate­d bureaucrat­s, who we have found to be far too demanding and dictatoria­l to such a free, pragmatic country like ours.

It will be interestin­g to see just what effects our leaving will have on the remaining 26 participat­ing countries, and in fact our own country. Watch this space..

The next hurdle for Boris is to concentrat­e fighting these present plagues with the same positive attitude he used into getting us out of the EU, which means we can all look to the future with confidence, and now put the word “great” back where it belongs, in “Great Independen­t Britain”, which will enable us to achieve our ultimate wish to return us to some normality and once again become masters of our own destiny.

Hopefully, after we have controlled these killer diseases, I would suggest Boris goes for a hat-trick by disposing of the House of Lords, a very expensive retirement place for a selected individual­s who can claim £300 per day just for turning up, plus generous expenses!

It’s absolutely crazy and beyond belief, when you think of those hundreds of millions people who have seen their life savings decimated by factors that they cannot control.

So I see no sensible reason why we have to continue spending such an extortiona­te amount of money just to pander to a selected few.

I’m sure there will many peers will totally disagree naturally, because they would be missing their daily luxurious hotel lifestyle.

It’s just a perk for the selected few, who like on occasions to dress similarly to Santa Claus in their expensive red and ermine robes, because that’s just how they like to portray themselves.

Never has there been a more appropriat­e saying, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”.

I’m not against rewarding those who have worked tirelessly for this country, but knighthood­s should not be offered to those who just happen to have friends in high places.

Ray Newcombe, Aylestone

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