Glad that Rishi is splashing the cash

IN reply to your correspondent, Tommy Bray, who enquires if he is the only one wondering where all this money is coming from that Rishi Sunak keeps splashing around, the answer is that it is created out of thin air by the Bank of England on government instruction.

So money is man-made. Government creates it. We elect governments. They control who gets it. If Mr Bray thinks Mr Sunak should create more – and he’s right, he should, as he hasn’t created nearly enough to look after the British people during this pandemic – then I suggest Mr Bray writes to inform the Chancellor that government, holding the world monopoly on sterling creation, should be creating more – in his case, for the BBC as a start.

Jackman and (most unusually!) Francis Kirkham.

While, as Francis says, the vast majority of those who have attended the protest marches are ordinary, decent people who were horrified at the death of George Floyd, there is no doubt that there were others who were out to cause trouble. Ordinary decent people do not deface or pull down statues, nor do they riot and attack the police, so if, as Mike claims, their ulterior motives are for defunding the police, ending capitalism and closing prisons are true, then it puts a far more sinister angle on that movement.

I don’t know what readers think, but I have the feeling that the population in general are getting a little tired of these protest marches and are equally fed up with those who constantly seek to trash our history as well as the timid councillors and archbishops who are ‘looking at’ what statues should be removed in the name of ‘political correctness’.

It seems to me that all this is stirred up by some who go out of their way to be offended and scour the papers or TV interviews to find anything they can scream ‘racist’ at, particularly if someone disagrees with their views, and at the same time take advantage of the current protest craze to run down this great country of ours. The latest fad appears to be from some odd-bod who apparently writes for the BBC who has stated that Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory should be omitted from the Last Night of the Proms because it is ‘jingoistic,’ and another from a Labour MP who was reported to have objected because Kellogs ‘Rice Crispies’ had