May showed determination in her speech
From: K Dransfield, Firs Grove, Harrogate.
YOUR columnist GP Taylor writes ‘Theresa May has to go’ (The Yorkshire Post, October 11). Why? Because her performance at the Conservative conference sealed her fate. He, has, like so many others have done, concluded this from three things. First the two dropped-off letters from a notice, secondly the intrusion of the man who had schemed his way in and, thirdly, on her bout of coughing.
What a flimsy reason for his view and how insensitive! The truth is that, in spite of the cough, she stuck to her task – displaying the kind of determination she shows elsewhere.
He writes with reference to “like a has-been Caesar... Around her, knives are drawn... coughing her way to resignation.” He should have added – “and I am in the mob urging her enemies on”.
Or better still he should consider, as he writes his fortnightly article, comparing it with the task and responsibilities facing Theresa May.
From: Gordon Lawrence, Sheffield.
IN response to Brian Sheridan (The Yorkshire Post, October 9), the bias emanating from the BBC was well exemplified in the news bulletin after Theresa May’s speech.
The BBC and its political editor Laura Kuenssberg didn’t analyse that event, but assassinated it. Admittedly, the speech was subjected to many distractions and was some miles away from being inspirational, but the BBC spent far more time following the antics of the P45 man than it did to the speech.
Any casual observer would have believed a terrorist had got loose in the hall!
From: Anthony A Hampshire, Esplanade, Scarborough.
MY objection to membership of the EU has always been based on a loss of UK sovereignty, replaced by an increasingly undemocratic EU bureaucracy.
The pro-EU lobby appears to concentrate on purely financial considerations, never mind the obvious loss of democracy, because – to them – what actually matters is increasing our wealth? Well it isn’t!
What would the reaction within the UK have been had we experienced the burden of repeated referenda as in Portugal and Ireland, until Brussels got the outcome they actually sought?
From: Hilary Andrews, Nursery Lane, Leeds.
HOW noble of John Cole (The Yorkshire Post, October 10) to feel he has to set himself alight to show his protest about us leaving the EU. Pity that the EU have declared Bradford City Square a smoke-free zone!