Letters - May 10, 2016
However she has excelled herself this time in her letter of May 4 (‘We need to root out hate in all its forms’).
Ken Livingstone had toured various studios claiming that Hitler was a Zionist and was confronted by Labour MP John Mann, who called Livingstone a Nazi apologist.
Ms Nye claims it is John Mann who should be suspended.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claims that Hamas and Hezbollah are his friends, and I wonder if this has encouraged certain Labour members to air their anti-Semitic views.
Ms Nye finishes her letter by trying to blame this Labour issue on David Cameron – what utter nonsense!
We all know who is to blame and it is the anti-Semites in the Labour Party – they need to be thrown out of the party immediately.
Coun Peter Gibson
Leader, Wyre Council
RIGHTS
MP was correct to speak out on USA
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Hide AdA letter from ‘Name and address supplied’ castigates Fleetwood MP Cat Smith for speaking out in support of the plight of a minority in the American South (Your Say, Gazette, May 5).
North Carolina and Mississippi have made it legal to discriminate against LGBT people. This means they can now be denied service, or even medical attention, simply for being gay. This is plain and simply wrong. Discrimination in all its forms is detestable whether hear or abroad yet your correspondent thinks that, because it’s another democratic country, we shouldn’t get involved.
Their officials may well be elected, but then so was the greatest monster the world has ever seen.
Sometimes it is necessary to “get involved”. Just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s right.
Martin Woodsford
Park Road
St Annes
HEALTH
Show your support for NHS nurses
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While it is true that last month, the Government awarded nurses a meagre one per cent pay rise, it still means nurses’ pay is around 14 per cent behind the cost of living than when David Cameron came to power in 2010.
Now there’s been another attack on our pay. This time changes in National Insurance arrangements on pensions will wipe out our one per cent rise before it even hits our pay packet.
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