Your letters on the Liz Truss and Terry Jermy clashes, a charity appeal in Hunstanton and King’s Lynn and the Huw Edwards court case
Here are the letters from the Lynn News of Friday, September 20, 2024…
So, do we want a Blue Tory or a Red one?
What could possibly be more amusing than Blue Tory Liz Truss ticking off her successor Terry Jermy for behaving like the Red Tory he proudly is?
Liz, the 40-day wonder who wrecked the UK economy by handing out millions to the rich and powerful, now cries for the poor freezing pensioners abandoned by her heartless successor.
Yet the two share the same delusional view on 'balanced' economics and even agree that taxing the super rich is not an option.
Electors withheld support for her and her 'insurmountable' 27,600 majority dissolved as they turned against the widely reported "absent" MP, so rarely seen working for her constituents.
Perhaps she has learnt her lesson and we can look forward to seeing and hearing from her more over the next five years.
So once again we electors will be presented with the choice of having for a Blue or Red Tory MP.
Philip Wagstaff
Methwold
Truss is right but she hasn’t a leg to stand on
Just when you start to think those crazy nightmarish days when Liz Truss was actually our Prime Minister have finally been swept into the ignominious dustbin of history, we find she's still scuttling around the periphery of politics offering statements about our hapless SW Norfolk political newbie, Labour's Terry Jermy.
Clearly Terry has sided with his new bosses despite having blathered on about 'fairness' and 'social responsibility' in the run up to the election and voted to stop the winter fuel allowance.
What’s the price of 'social responsibility' Terry? About £300?
While it's obvious if you want to progress in this Labour Government you're going to have to kowtow to the party bigwigs and curb that inner voice telling you it's wrong to cut the heating allowance - I suspect while you're siting warm and comfy at home or in your Westminster office untrammelled by heating bills you'll be troubled by thoughts about the cold old folk hovering over a one-bar electric fire ever-fearful of the electricity bill that's coming.
Liz is right... you've failed the first test but frankly she's not got a 'socially responsible' leg to stand on... or indeed a seat to sit on in The House of Commons. Swings and roundabouts.
Steve Mackinder
Denver
He has failed to walk the walk after talking the talk
Hard Labour governance continued when MPs voted in favour of cancelling the Winter Fuel Allowance in the House of Commons.
At the same time the Government is spending billions of pounds on African climate change, green energy, overseas aid and large pay increases for public sector workers.
Clearly it is the senior citizens who are the sacrificial lambs, being mugged while muggers are released from prisons early.
This is for £1.5billion savings, a small sum in terms of fiscal expenditure which will probably be reduced or even expunged on a National Health Service already described as in a "critical condition".
At a local level my MP Terry Jermy shabbily voted to support the Government in this iniquitous folly.
He ‘talked the talk' during the General Election campaign in his support for a secure Queen Elizabeth Hospital future, but failed to 'walk the walk' when put to the test.
The QEH will conceivably be troubled as this Winter Fuel Allowance impacts negatively on it.
From 'Starmergeddon' at Westminster to 'Harmageddon' in South West Norfolk, the truth came out in the Wash from Terry Jermy's deliberations, a body of sea water not far from the hospital.His vote is a defining feature of Parliamentary membership so far, which could turn out to be a legacy from a transient politician, here today, gone tomorrow!
David Fleming
Downham
Labour is the party to make these tough and bold decisions
So, it is now categorically clear that the Conservative Party left our NHS on the brink because Lord Darzi's report now proves it.
Ever since the NHS was founded under a Labour government it has never been in such a sorry state.
So I fully welcome Sir Keir Starmer's commitment to a ten year plan to turn the NHS around.
The Conservative Party policy of sticking plaster politics has failed completely.
Tough and bold decisions need to be taken and Labour is the party to take them.
Geoffrey Brooking
via email
Generosity towards are appeal has been remarkable
As the Wings Appeal Organiser of the Lynn and District Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association, I should to thank everyone in the Lynn and Hunstanton area who have contributed so generously to this year’s branch collections on behalf of the Royal Air Forces Association’s Wings Appeal. With the help of other branch members, who I am indebted to, I have been able to take our stall to various locations in the area, and I should like to thank the Castle Rising Estate, the Purfleet Trust, West Norfolk Council and Hunstanton Town Council for permitting these collections.
Most of all I should like to thank everyone who made donations. Considering the economic climate we live in the generosity of local people and visitors has been remarkable, and our branch members and the Association are very grateful. It is through your generosity that the Association can provide the help it does to retired and serving Royal Air Force personnel and their families.
Rob Findlater
Wings Appeal organiser, Royal Air Forces Association Lynn and District Branch
Charges were unsavoury but still wildly exaggerated
The reason why former BBC news presenter Huw Edwards wasn’t given a custodial prison sentence was because the charges against him, albeit unsavoury, were wildly exaggerated simply because he was Huw Edwards, a renowned BBC presenter.
Moreover why should Edwards be seen guilty of betraying trust simply because he was a renowned BBC presenter who commentated on issues relating to the Royals and the events surrounding them?
No doubt the majority of mainstream broadcasters and journalists whom many British households regularly see and hear are incorrigibly perfect in every aspect of their lives!
However if some sections of the the public believe that every mainstream news presenter or journalist they hear and see on media are always squeaky clean in their private lives, then that’s entirely down to those individual members of the public.
Therefore the likes of Huw Edwards can hardly be accused of betraying anyone’s confidence.
Nick Vinehill
Snettisham
