Means should shape the end you achieve

I WOULD point out to Douglas Davies that Harold Wilson won by four seats in 1964 with 44% of the vote compared with only 43% of the vote for Boris Johnson in 2019, yet Labour did not bolt themselves in for five years with a Fixed Term Parliament Act. Instead Wilson held another election in 1966 and increased the Labour majority to 98 seats.

In reply to the anonymous caller who accuses me of being brainwashed by the Labour Party, I would point out that I have not been a member of the Labour Party since I stood as the Lib Dem candidate in the 2005 election against Anne Clwyd, who stated her view that the end justified the means of invading Iraq.

I wanted to state publicly that history’s most fundamental lesson is that the means you use shape the end you achieve. This will be true of this failed government using the cover of this disastrous pandemic to inflict the even longer-lasting disaster of a no-deal Brexit. Margaret Phelps

Penarth

This loan was point blank refused. And these workers were fed to the wolves as these governments knew these men and women were also losing their promised pensions.

If those workers in 2002 were treated with the same fairness as today, ASW would still be in business today, and their workers’ pensions would have been safe and paid in full when they retired.

The double standards in Westminster and Cardiff Bay beggar belief.

Let’s hope Tata steelworkers can be treated with fairness in their fight for survival.

Former ASW steelworkers, though, will never give up the fight for fairness and the pensions they paid 100% for. End of.

John Benson Dinas Powis