European Union is a real threat to peace
IT has taken a while to get my head around the political positions of the main parties in the coming General Election.
I am not a member of any political party, though I am an inveterate ‘peacemonger.’
To me the European Union is a major threat to peace in Europe. The EU cannot expand to the west (Ireland and the UK are all ready members of the EU). The EU can only physically expand to the east.
The deliberate undermining of the democratically elected anti-EU government of the Ukraine by the EU led to the deaths of thousands of innocent Ukrainian citizens, civil war and the Russian invasion of Crimea. At the time of the demonstrations, EU representative Baroness Catherine Ashton turned up in Kiev to give the new pro-EU Government its support.
Which political group took a leading role in the rebellion? A movement called Right-Sector, a far-right fascist organisation. For the EU it is the ‘end’ that matters not the ‘means.’
The greedy and corrupt rulers don’t care if there is a nuclear war with Russia, all they care about is power and loot like their awful fictional counterparts in Game of Thrones.
The people of Europe have been demonstrating against the EU in major rebellions this year like the ‘yellow shirts’ in France. Will there be an EU to rejoin!
But who to vote for? The leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has a history of campaigning against wars, in fact even Tories who meet him say what a nice guy he is. He is by far a better man and leader than most other party leaders.
But there is a major problem. The Labour Party is chock full of Remainers, and as soon as the
General Election was announced, Jeremy Corbyn said he would support a second referendum on the EU, a major demand of the Remainers. This also sent a coded message to the resurgent Remainer Lib Dems that a coalition between Labour and their party is on the table.
It seems the only choice for people who value peace above war is to back the Brexit Party and the Conservatives for now (with gritted teeth).
Dorothy Perkins, via email
No fear of privatisation
WHILE collecting my Manchester
Evening News yesterday, I decided to inquire at the nearby pharmacy about the anti-flu jab.
Within five minutes I was vaccinated: no appointment, no tortuous bureaucracy, no need to travel to my surgery, no three-week wait to see a medical professional – just instantaneous satisfaction.
Is this the dreaded NHS privatisation of which Corbyn and Andrew Wastling (Viewpoints,
November 11) are so frightened?
Joseph O’Neill, via email
Parties to carve up UK
WHICHEVER way you look at it, Brexit makes no sense on any level.
Eighty per cent of our trade is with Europe and we are giving that up for a dodgy deal with Donald (I will put the USA first) Trump!
The pound has been devalued to an all time low and the economy is growing slower than anytime since the banking crisis.
Boris and Farage have done a deal to carve up the country between them, cue more cuts to the NHS, schools and councils in the north.
Say goodbye to workers’ rights, our food and environmental protections, child care and social care for the elderly, it won’t get any better and our country will be poorer in every way.
In the light of these concerns please consider how you vote very, very carefully!
David Chadwick, Moston
Let a child turn on lights
OUR council announced Rochdale Christmas activities and once again our Mayor has the honour of ‘flicking’ the switch.
Why can’t a child of courage who has achieved something do the switch on?
Christmas is for children.
Godmother, address supplied
Please hand bracelet in
I WAS shopping in Tesco Stretford superstore on November 12 and my bracelet fell off my wrist.
It is very sentimental as my fatherin-law gave it to me and he passed
away recently.
I urge you from the bottom of my heart if you could hand it in at Tesco superstore.
Many thanks from a heartbroken person.
Name and address supplied
Bonfire Night attacks
HAVING seen the reports of bad
behaviour directed at the fire service I am appalled.
I live on my own and on Bonfire Night my smoke alarm went off.
The lovely fire people came almost immediately and sorted it and settled me, as I was upset.
These people do a wonderful job and do not deserve the bad treatment.
So I send my apologies to them for all the bad people who attacked them.
Wendy Jones, Cheadle Hulme