WHO RULES AND THEIR RULES
DO YOU have a spare £15,000 each year to pay a fee to an elite club, which gets you an invite to dinner with Prince Charles? That is what can be arranged by the nephew of Charles’ wife, who also happens to be co-chairman of the Conservative Party.
Club members were also last year allowed to purchase private PCR tests for Covid, at a cost of £295 each, at a time when even the NHS struggled to get them to test patients being moved to care homes, where sadly many thousands subsequently died.
A club which allowed a member to sit next to the Tory housing minister at another dinner and save himself having to pay a £45 million levy on a property development he was proposing, the developer subsequently giving £12,000 to the Tories.
People who have given six-figure donations to the Tories appear to have access to the most senior ministers in Government, ministers who have control over billions of pounds of public money.
Once again, one rule for the Tories and their friends, another rule for the rest of us.
Harry Dobson, via email
DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH
JAMES Roberts went to some lengths to explain how Keir Starmer is going to ruin the Labour Party.
He champions the reign of Jeremy Corbyn who increased the membership of the party to new heights (hurrah) but then led them to the most glorious electoral defeat in almost 100 years (hmmm), and moan about the Blairite clique, Blair being the most electorally successful Labour leader (hurrah) but a money-grubbing, self-promoter (hmmm).
The UK voter is far too savvy to fall for any ‘equality’ and ‘fairness for all’ nonsense so I hope James and friends are not holding their breath.
David Hickman, via email