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Should Claudia Webbe be allowed to remain an MP? Join the debate by emailing letters@westerndailypress.co.uk and including your name and address
paymasters (something he has denied, insisting the process for investigating him was unfair).
Even the Prime Minister’s incompetent and underhand efforts to save him have backfired in such a spectacular underhand way, which has to many sealed his fate to continue in the highest political position in the land. At least the people of North Shropshire will soon have the opportunity to deliver their verdict on these shenanigans.
Then we have the crimes of the Honourable Member for Leicester East, one Claudia Webbe, who was convicted of making abusive phone calls and threatening to throw acid in the face of her ‘love rival’, as well as threatening to send naked pictures of her to her family and friends.
A two-year sentence should have been on the cards, in which case she would have been sacked as an MP. But no, she only received a 10-week suspended prison sentence and
200 hours of community service, meaning she can still remain as an MP on full pay and perks and is laughing all the way to her bank.
Had Ms Webbe been an ordinary black or white citizen from some ‘sink estate’ and not an MP, my gut feeling is that she would have received a more punitive sentence for her dastardly crime.
Could it be that even the judiciary are looking over their shoulder when it comes to political correctness? What more bad luck can the constituents of Leicester East have coming their way, as Ms Webbe had already replaced the disgraced Keith Vaz as their MP.
And there was me thinking the constituents of Buckingham had had it rough by having John Bercow and Robert Maxwell as their previous MPs.
Politics and the Judiciary should be the bastions of fair play and honesty in this cradle of democracy. Is it time to change the baby’s nappy and give us all a breath of fresh air?
Sleaze and politics should be poles apart in an honest world, but it seems they are joined at the hip in Westminster nowadays.
As for the hapless Owen Paterson, I feel a job of heading up a quango coming on.
We must keep these jobs in the family, after all.
Edward Kynaston
Forest of Dean our water quality will be more like the third world if we aren’t careful.
We are using the old pipes that carry rain and sewage, so no parliamentary party comes out squeaky clean, as they all could have chased up the water companies.
We may be able to have electric cars that will be ‘net zero’, but how much carbon will it take to make them and the necessary batteries? The infrastructure isn’t ready yet. Even the adverts only show one car at a time.
Let’s have a sense of reality, please.
The Government seem to be lurching into headless chicken actions without careful thought. It may be late as the clock is striking ‘midnight’ in the existence of the human race, but ‘slowly but surely’ should be the way we do it.
Stop wasting money, time and effort on panic projects and start pulling together.
Common sense says we will never have it totally carbon neutral, unless we go back to the horse and cart.
All we can do is ‘do our bit’ as each bit will add up. Pressurising people into things that are uneconomical or unfeasible will not achieve anything.
We are paying other countries to change. Do they want to? Does that mean we will be feeding them to stop the deforestation where they are trying to grow food?
Why should they change when we will do all of the work for them?
Paying China and India to be ‘friends’ doesn’t seem to be working.
Just a few years ago, this country was (only) millions in debt, now we are £2.2 billion and growing. It took the pandemic to push us deeper into debt; we are not ready for another emergency, let alone all of these grandiose ideas that various protest groups keep having.
How does putting taxes on things make them carbon neutral? All it does is put money in the Treasury.
If the action is bad for the country/ world, then just stop it! A
gain, another unworkable position.
Mrs T Newman
Gloucester