The world must think our MPs are barking mad
Has there ever been a clearer demonstration of parliamentary contempt for the electorate? Block the deal one day, block ‘No Deal’ the next.
the rest of the world must think our MPs are barking mad. they are collectively a disgrace and totally unfit to be in charge. What was the point of the referendum when they just ignore it?
ron CARTWRIGHT, Perranporth, Cornwall.
Voting in full knowledge
I AM sick of sanctimonious egotistical MPs saying that I and others didn’t know what we were voting for when we voted to leave the european union.
Well, I understood fully, I voted to leave with a deal or without a deal. I knew all the arguments pro and con and I haven’t changed my mind — unlike most MPs.
G. HILL, Weston super Mare, somerset. IF ever proof were needed of the contempt with which MPs regard the British public, the speeches after the ‘meaningful vote’ on rejecting a No Deal Brexit provided it in plenty.
We were treated to the unedifying spectacle of MPs proclaiming that the house had spoken and the Government must therefore obey the will of the house and take No Deal off the table.
Do they think the will of 350 MPs outweighs the will of 17.4 million people who voted to leave the eu? they are utterly despicable and clearly think they are better than everyone else.
Alan Wyllie, Largs, Ayrshire
No backbone
NO Wonder, the Army is desperate, for young recruits. Our Army veterans are going to be hung out to dry over Bloody Sunday, and numerous economic migrants are receiving benefits, housing, NHS treatment and skipping up to the top of the waiting list for houses. then we have the joy of Jeremy Corbyn waiting in the wings for the keys to Number 10.
What a spineless country, we have become. Dana Perrin, ticehurst, e. sussex.
Universities challenged
the equality And human rights Commission has considered the need to investigate the Labour Party to determine if its handling of anti-Semitism cases complies with equalities law. this is extraordinary but not surprising.
Some Labour Party members seem to have a misguided hatred of Israel, which can be seen in their support for certain events.
For example, on university campuses activists will organise and attend Israel Apartheid Week events. A false analogy will be drawn between Israel and apartheid in South Africa with the deliberate intent of dishonestly casting Israel as a racist country.
Simply put, this is a lie. there is no apartheid-type segregation in Israel where an Arab may live in peace — indeed, you have to visit the surrounding Arab states to find an almost complete apartheid against Jews, but again, only if you can find any Jews there, given that about 750,000 were driven out.
On the same theme, the organisers of the Al Quds demonstration, an annual event in London supported by Jeremy Corbyn, encourage their supporters to wave the flag of hezbollah.
hezbollah murders Jews and has a declared aim of destroying Israel and the people who live there.
If you support, or organise, for either of these two events you are clearly anti-Semitic in terms of the definition of anti-Semitism.
the good news is that our home Secretary has banned hezbollah, making it illegal to fly their flag in Britain.
the bad news is that while IAW breaches the government’s definition of antisemitism, these events are allowed to go ahead on university campuses.
Andrew lawson, Dundee.
Rethink diesel
the near tragedy of the probably petrol-fuelled car fire in which three children ( Mail) were saved only by extreme bravery should give pause for thought to those campaigning against diesel vehicles. Diesel is a less explosive fuel than petrol and a trend against the former will inevitably have the result of more vehicle occupants being burnt to death.
Ian Wilson, Chippenham, Wilts.
Regulate live streams
the live streaming of the terrorist outrage in New Zealand on internet sites on Friday, and the delay in taking it down, illustrate perfectly what is wrong with internet regulation.
By having to wait for complaints before offensive material is removed, there is time for other like-minded people to copy and repost that material, often under different names, all over the web, thus making it extremely difficult to get rid of it.
Would it not be more sensible for legislation to require that all material on the web must be moderated
before it can be shown? Internet moguls will, of course, squeal because this will impose on them a duty of care and affect their massive profits . . . which is why such regulation must be compulsory.
Ian Mcnicholas, ebbw Vale, south Wales.