'A perspective on crime, benefits and immigration' - your letters, plus a throwback picture of St Paul’s Choir, Knowbury
From reflections on politics and public spending to loneliness, childhood memories and royal scrutiny, your views today...
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We need to be able to speak
We are now living in a country where if you tell the truth and it is uncomfortable for some people to hear there is a tendency for certain people and certain groups to come together to condemn that person.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has spoken out about what he sees as the real situation in this country.
He may have been a little clumsy in his choice of words but what he was putting forward for a great many people in this country is fundamentally correct.
Everything is going wrong, for example wicked crimes are being carried out and ridiculously lenient sentences are being handed out.
We are facing a period of enormous tax rises and a lot of this money is being spent on totally the wrong thing. As far as Sir Jim's remarks on immigration nobody can argue he is right. The numbers are too high and that includes legal and illegal immigration.
He is also right about the welfare bill, we now have a country where so many people have chosen a life living on benefits.
They have chosen this because benefits are so high in some cases people working are getting less than some people on benefits.
John Green, Shropshire
My poem about a lonely day
This is a poem written by myself describing what it's like to be lonely. It is called Day in the Life of a Pensioner:
Looking through windows,
Sat by the phone,
It never rings,
No message has flown,
People dogs and cars,
Go sailing by,
