I’ve had two letters in the Shropshire Star this week:
Blair could gather tips
It is reported 200,000 people signed a BBC petition to Hamas militants that kidnapped reporter Alan Johnston – and he was released.
About 1.8 million people signed Peter Roberts’ petition calling on Government not to introduce road pricing and they ignored it. Maybe Tony Blair could pick up some tips for Gordon while he is in the Middle East.
S Parr
Telford
Problem of the PM’s pledge to Scotland
In 1998 Gordon Brown signed the Scottish Claim of Right.
This public oath said “We, tgathered as the Scottish Constitutional Convention, do hereby acknowledge the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs, and do hereby declare and pledge that in all our deliberations their interests shall be paramount.”
Gordon Brown, MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, pledged as far back as 1998 to put Scotland first yet the Labour Party – and Her Majesty, The Queen, for that matter – don’t see a problem.
Is it too much to ask that the British Prime Minister and de-facto First Minister of England pledges to represent the whole of the country equally and no to put five million of his fellow Scots in front of 65 million English people in all his “actions and deliberations”.
Stuart Parr
Telford
Forgive me, but what does the first letter actually mean? It doesn’t seem to make any sense at all.
Still, that’s never been a problem for the letters editor of the Star.
Dodgy editing by the Sloppy Star. It was about the BBC reporter being released after a petition was started but the British government ignoring petitions. It was just a light-hearted side-swipe at the traitors in Downing Street.