Your Letters: November 6

While I do spend a lot of time criticising politicians, even if I were 40 years younger I could not be one myself. First reason is I have a conscience plus I would have to tell world leaders what I thought of them as well as any politician who I believed was misleading the public. I would also want to avoid going to countries that I felt were not up to scratch. 

I wouldn't want to meet Donald Trump or Benjamin Netanyahu and I have no wish to meet Boris Johnson. From the start I have intensely disliked Dominic Cummings and Nigel Farage. I don't do these things on a whim, I get as much information as I can then analyse the things they are saying. 

Dominic Cummings for instance spent three years in Russia where he started an airline that went broke after its first trial flight without passengers. In Russia he got a taste for governments with a few hard leaders who would keep us plebs in our place and like Putin he would not sully his plans with inconvenient truths. 

Boris Johnson had been dismissed twice at least for bending the truth, had been described by colleagues as a prolific liar and treated wives and mistresses with contempt. When he was at Oxford he spent one evening in the bar belittling an academic high flyer from the north. This was the same obnoxious attitude that Nigel Farage displayed in the European Parliament.

I have relatives in the USA but the only State I have been to is Alaska and that was only briefly. I don't like their gun laws, I don't like the fact that too many are unable to shake off racist views and I don't like those who try to overturn well thought through conclusions. 

I don't like Australia because they don't care about anyone except themselves. Thus they are happy to export huge amounts of polluting coal and iron ore. On my bucket list however, I want my next holiday abroad to be in a peaceful Ukraine.

Roger Watts, Walsall

LITTLE WORD ON CALAIS JUNGLE 

About 10 or so years ago the scandal of the Jungle, Calais was front page news and part of our nightly news bulletins on TV. At the time, many 'luvvies' from show business along with various political notable bewailed the fate of the poor individuals stranded there. One of the most vociferous, if I remember correctly, was Yvette Cooper wife of Ed Balls, ex politician, and many of these very generous people, including Ms Cooper, said that they would welcome one of the unfortunates stranded at the Jungle into their homes.

Can anyone tell me how many of the offers of housing were taken up from the people offering it?

Michael Gough, Wombourne

TECHNOLOGY IS A REAL NIGHTMARE

As it stands, technology is taking over our lives and is a nightmare, it will never replace human interaction. But yet again we have another waste of space Prime Minister in Keir Starmer, who has more bright ideas to disrupt our lives by interfering with plans for NHS in which technology has already taken over, but we all know what that's about. 

Also, when his bright ideas have plighted our lives, he will move on as others before him have done. Please leave out our NHS alone.

Judith Fisher, Tividale