From tool makers to titles: reader questions socialism, plus a snapshot of Wednesday nights at The Wheel
From politics and housing to benefits and speed cameras, readers share their views on issues affecting communities today.
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Where is the socialism here?
What possible new definition of socialism could have evolved when it is represented by the likes of Lord Peter Mandleson and Sir Keir Starmer?
For a start, shouldn’t socialists, by definition, be turning down such titles of privilege as Lord and Sir?
Of course there can’t be many people left who haven’t heard that Sir Keir’s father was a ‘tool maker’ and this fact becomes more and more evident every time Mr Starmer’s son, our Prime Minister, opens his mouth! We must give the man his due though, he does remove his tie when rubbing shoulders with us hoi polloi! And what kind of ‘socialist’ lives in a ‘£12 million London house’? The kind of socialist that son of toil Lord Mandleson is apparently.
‘Up the workers!’
Alan Jones, Halesowen
Fed up with the identikit homes
The local press is full of reports about protest meetings by local residents trying to fight off proposals for new houses in local villages. Penkridge and Ecclleshall are but two examples. What will they get if they lose?
