More trouble on the trains Help stamp out bone cancer
I’M A volunteer at the Bone Cancer Research Trust and I’m looking for support for their stamp appeal.
The Bone Cancer Research Trust (Charity Number 1159590) are the leading charity dedicated to fighting primary bone cancer, and we would love the support of your readers.
It’s so easy for your readers to get involved, we would like to ask them to save used and new postage stamps from the UK and overseas, any amount at any time of the year is very much appreciated.
In 2019, we are aiming to raise at least £30,000 just from stamps and stamp collections.
Please save your new and used stamps for their stamp appeal. Maybe there’s a birthday coming up, or even your workplace receives lots of post.
Instead of throwing stamps away, send them to the Bone Cancer Research Trust Stamp Appeal and they can turn your stamps into funds, so they can continue with their life-saving research, providing reliable information, raising crucial awareness as well as offering support to those who need it. Find out more at www.bcrt.org.uk/stamps
Please send your stamps to: BCRT Stamp Appeal, 20 Bowers Road,
Benfleet, Essex, SS7 5PZ YET another huge delay to trains on the Northern Line recently.
“What freak occurrence could it possibly be this time?” I hear you ask.
Ice! Who could have possibly predicted ice to be on the tracks in January?
All joking aside, Merseyrail really needs to start checking the weather reports. If my wife can have the foresight to throw a cover over her windscreen the night before, then surely Merseyrail can make an effort to get people to work on time! Simon Skelhorne
Formby
DON’T MAKE US STAY IN
DOES not Bill Esterson understand that to take no deal off the table means that we will have to accept any deal that the EU offers us?
Or stay in the European Union, which is not what we voted for.
Thank God we did not have Corbyn and the likes in 1939. Alistair R Sweet
via email
AGREEMENT DUPLICITY
WE IN the Liberal Party campaigned for the referendum on the UK remaining in the EU or leaving, giving the British people their right to determine our future
Having all major parties agree to the referendum, the Prime Minister is absolutely right to suggest those MP’s seeking to sabotage any deal are bringing Parliament into grave disrepute.
Liberal Party members met in Birmingham and discussed the current Brexit plan at great length.
Those MPs who have concerns about article 132 locking us into the EU and our future being determined at their will, are right to be nervous over this legally binding clause
If the EU is able to declare that this clause is time-limited, then there is no reason why this can not and should not be written into the legal text.
Every businessman or woman will know declarations saying one thing and a legal agreement saying something else is a duplicity we should all avoid at our peril.
Cllr Steve Radford President of the Liberal Party
GROTESQUE GREED
BY AROUND 1pm on January 4, 2019, the UK’s top chief executives had been paid as much since the start of 2019 as an average worker is paid in a year.
This is underlined in a study by the High Pay Centre and the Chartered Institute of Personnel which reveals that the average top CEO is paid £133 for every £1 earned by their employees.
Twenty years ago, the ratio was £45 to £1. They receive more than £1,000 an hour, while the minimum wage ranges from £4.20 to £7.83 an hour.
This grotesque greed is justified by self-serving money-gluttons who preposterously claim that, because they are irreplaceable, they are worth every penny of their bloated pay packets, while the wages and conditions of the workers who actually create the wealth are constantly under attack.
These are the fat cats who bank-roll the Tory party and who are dead keen on austerity for the poor while their income increased by 11% in 2018, with similar increases yearly since the crash.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady responded to the findings by calling for “big reforms to bring fat cat pay down to earth”.
That’s OK, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough.
Such confirmation of the inequalities rampant in Tory
Britain should stimulate mass action by the whole Labour movement, including the TUC and councils, to create the conditions for a general election now, to rid ourselves of this government whose main objective is to enrich its already super-rich friends. To avoid further Tory-imposed agony for the working class going into 2019, a Corbyn-led Government in Downing Street is imperative now.
Tony Mulhearn