Cancel HS2, pay NHS staff
From: Barry Foster, High Stakesby, Whitby.
OUR country was in the top league just before the virus hit us (Patrick Mercer, The Yorkshire Post, May 23). Now the Chancellor is spending money and giving support to many. How is this to be sustained?
Do we really need to get to London 20 minutes earlier with HS2? I don’t think so. The overseas aid budget is, quite frankly, appalling.
Much praise, quite rightly, has been levelled at the NHS. They have not had a decent pay rise for years. If they are seen as precious, they should be treated as such.
From: ME Wright, Harrogate.
PATRICK Mercer advocates the repeal of legislation “which forces us to send about £15bn abroad every year”. As is usual with diatribes of this kind, he makes no mention of the countless billions which disappear “abroad”, stuffing countless pillows in tax havens.
He’s certainly right in claiming that the PM must get a grip on his Cabinet. He must remind them of the red-to-blue voters’ revolution which gave him his majority in December’s election.
He must ensure that it is not they who end up paying for the historic failures of Tory and Labour governments.
Hans Mariee Westbury. Do any of us understand the extent and detail of the daily task of a PM?
Andrea Aylott. If you folks can do any better, go out there and do it.
Jon Crowther. Tough job. Come on, it’s a small island with over 65 million people so was never going to be easy, along with the media who are so negative about everything.
Julie Jones. It’s a learning curve every day. No government knew what to do, they acted in the best way they thought possible. Give it a rest.
Marie Brattley. Yes, with all Boris Johnson has had to cope with, please give him a chance.
Michaela Chadwick. I think he has done everything he can. No one could have seen this coming and he has done his very best to help us. Some people don’t want to listen to him but that is their choice, not his fault. Keep up the good work Boris.
Carole McCulloch. I think Boris has tried to do his best under the circumstances, but I think he’s let the nation down by not sacking Dominic Cummings.
Bernard Ross Lee. No absolutely not, we should have closed our borders completely back in January. We are an island. Shutting our borders in my view would have made sense.