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Letters: It’s time to share the wealth

Dear Editor

When you consider the vast array of skills developedand used every day by working people in all walks of life; it is truly amazing.

We all rely on the skills of others in so many ways.

Sometimes we forget that it is people like us who are providing all the goods and services that we take for granted. It is the ordinary working people who, with their skill and compassion, make life possible for everyone.

It is the same 99% of the peoplewho create, clean, repair and care for us that also generate the wealth, but have little control over. The ownership of that wealth has now become the property of others.

The workers who created the wealth now find themselves with no say in how it should be invested or distributed, and low pay and unfairness continues.

The workers who created the wealth now find themselves with no say in how it should be invested or distributed and low pay and unfairness continues.

The wealth created by the 99% now belongs to the few. It is time that this historic confidence trick is challenged and all workers are awarded, and involved in, who benefits from our national wealth.

A. Delahoy

Silverknowes Gardens

Letter: What a wonderful world?

Dear Editor

Great dangers exist for all life on this planet, caused in the main by human activity. This activity is increasingly being moer understood worldwide.

All species of life depend on each other for survival, but it would appear that some authorities – like those in Botswana, Namibia, Zambua and Zimbabwe – have a different view, stating that they intend to allow the shooting of elephants.

Why is such a dreadful thing thought about, let alone acted on? They are also lifting the ban on sales of ivory: it takes very little skill to add two and two together!

These backward steps must be opposed and stopped. NOW!

A. Delahoy

Silverknowes Gardens

 

Letter: voice of the people?

Dear Editor

In future elections politicians both local and national must change their approach and attitude to the electors: from one of ‘what we will do for you, if elected’ to one of ‘we will carry out your decisions, if elected’.

This is how a democracy should and could work in the people’s interests.

A. Delahoy

Silverknowes Gardens 

Letters: young people lead the way on environment

Dear Editor

It seems that young people are showing their elders how to protest with effect. People have talked around, on and about climate change – but have not pushed hard enough for changes: now it is more than likely we have at most about twenty years to do so. Continue reading Letters: young people lead the way on environment

Letters: Brainwashed Britain?

Dear Editor

The banking organisations, through incompetence, nearly made the country bankrupt but the debt was passed on to the people to shoulder. They had to accept a lot of unemployment, higher prices in the shops, frozen wages and severe cuts to public and social services.

To avoid any resistance, the authorities launched a campaign of diversion and blame. Everyone can remember how different sections of society were blamed in turn: the unemployed for not working, the disabled for being on benefits – all were targets to be blamed.

This went on for many years and people had taken enough of austerity; there was a growing mood for change, calling for the authorities to take the banking industry into public ownership and impose tighter controls over financial institutions.

This fast-growing popular demand was greatly feared by the political elite. It took them quite a while to develop an idea to divert these demands, but after eight years they were successful. It was a continuation of the blame game, but this time not blaming our own people but any and all those coming from Europe – and the idea of a Referendum was born. They concentrated on three main issues: Control, Laws and Migration.

  1. Since the referendum we have lost thousands of people wh o formerly worked in our social services and the NHS: these services are now struggling to keep going.
  2. Most laws from the EU have been beneficial, adding to workers’ rights and conditions of employment. EU laws also protect the environment. The UK Parliament as a law-making body remains in control.
  3. This is the most mentioned issue. For whom are the demanding control? The British people have already said they wanted the banks to be publicly owned and demanded tighter controls on financial institutions. Control is such a loose word that can be manipulated by individuals for the benefit of the few.

The promoters of the referendum conducted a continuous campaign of national ‘brainwashing’. Putting relentless pressure on people is not a new idea, as a look back at recent history will confirm.

But unfortunately nearly 50% of the population were aware of the implications of a break with Europe that is our biggest trader of imports and exports, and closest.

A. Delahoy,

Silverknowes Gardens

Letters: The madness of nuclear weapons

Dear Editor

When the Americans dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, wiping out cities and thousands and thousands of people in an instant, mankind had reached the possibility of self destruction worldwide.

So far the peoples of the world have managed to restrain the madmen who still advocate the use of nuclear weapons.

These madmen, – for that is what they are – appear quite often on television supporting their use, but going further in advocating their first use.

How and why are they given the opportunity to promote such terrible actions? They really are totally mad.

Just think about it: what are they calling for? Are they really saying it will be in our and others best interests to decimate each other in the most horrible way?

A. Delahoy

Silverknowes Gardens

Letters: Immigrants are PEOPLE

Dear Editor

The word ‘immigrant’ is used freely but seldom in a good way. What is missing is the understanding that they are people, who for various reasons can no longer exist of live in their own country whether through war, economic squalor or changes in climate, making it impossible to survive.

They are asking for our support in their desperation to live.

Many people ‘walk by on the other side of the road’ but fortunately those who care are in the majority, willing to help but frustrated by those in power who see this human disaster only in terms of numbers, not women, children and men.

The extremes of indifference exhibited on the border of Mexico and America shows the depths to which some people in power are prepared to go, condemning vulnerable people for having to migrate just to exist.

The causes and events leading to this situation must be the target, not people.

A. Delahoy

Silverknowes Gardens

Letters: Paying a heavy price for bankers greed

Dear Editor

The financial collapse of the banking industry in 2008 was not caused by working people but by greedy financial investors and institutions eager to amass fortunes at the expense of everyone and anything.

Working people everywhere took the full force of these actions and are still paying the price in a lower standard of living and decimated public services.

There was, particularly from 2010, a growing understanding that things had to change : the domination by financial interests and banks was no longer seen as wanted or needed – and certainly not not to be trusted. People were rightly calling for control over speculators and more public control over essential services.

Political danger signals began to flash in ruling circles: these expressions of people’s control must be diverted, and sustained campaigns were conducted to this effect – firstly against the unemployed, then in turn the disabled and people on benefits. Vulnerable sections of society were blamed for all the troubles, but these campaigns backfired as society, to their great credit, opposed them.

Other diversions had to be implemented. Unable to place the blame on it’s own people, the focus was shifted to blaming others – particularly the European Union and immigrants. Shift the blame to them and all will be well, conveniently forgetting the banking disaster of 2008.

It is unfortunate that people anxious for changes were headed off in 2010 – 2016 and by misinformation throughout the EU referendum period for which the people of the UK have once again had to pay a heavy price in the hopes and aspirations of millions – particularly the younger generations.

A. Delahoy

Silverknowes Gardens 

 

Letters: Mr President defined?

Dear Editor

Definitions from the Oxford Dictionary:

TRUMP A blast of wind from a trumpet; proclaim loudly

TRUMPERY

  1. Unsound reasoning
  2. Thing of no value
  3. Tawdry and worthless
  4. Showy but worthless
  5. Trashy

Other definitions:

Egoist: the practice of talking about oneself

Self conceit

Dangerous to world peace

Callous bstrd

A.Delahoy

Silverknowes Gardens