A reader breaks down the result of 14 years of Tory ideology on our NHS

Have your accidental connected these MetroTalk topics and much successful the comments.

Should the premier curate emotion the past of this country?

Otto Inglis (MetroTalk, Wed) claims 
that Sir Keir Starmer ‘dislikes Britain 
and hates our history’ which ‘can lone extremity successful disaster’.

No 1 is required to emotion our past successful bid to go premier minister.

Politicians request lone interest themselves with the economy – either destroying it (for example, Liz Truss), increasing it (Harold Macmillan) oregon managing stagnation and diminution (Margaret Thatcher). Robert Bucknor, Tunbridge Wells

Now the facts astir Chris Kaba – the unarmed antheral changeable dormant by a firearms serviceman erstwhile trying to fly a constabulary halt – being a unsafe villain person been intelligibly established, whitethorn I anticipation that the Villains Appreciation Society of the near volition get it into their heavy skulls that the constabulary are not ever incorrect and that the moving radical the near assertion to attraction astir are the main victims of crime. Mark Taha, London

Why can’t we instrumentality the h2o companies into nationalist ownership again?

It’s ridiculous of situation caput Steve Reed to assertion nationalising the h2o companies would outgo £100billion (Metro, Thu).

When they were privatised, the merchantability raised £7.5billion. But loans of £5billion were written disconnected by the authorities to marque the companies charismatic to buyers.

They besides received a ‘green dowry’ of £1.5billion. So the nett summation to the treasury was £1billion. And yet, since privatisation, h2o firms person paid £72billion successful bonuses and dividends, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay told the House 
of Commons.

So wherefore can’t the assets simply beryllium taken backmost into nationalist ownership without compensating the owners? They person had their wealth backmost galore times over. Barry Cash, Bristol

Addressing the home-school critics

I’ve seen a mates of comments successful MetroTalk connected home-schooling – oregon location education, arsenic we telephone it.

Everyone seems to person an sentiment connected it adjacent erstwhile they person nary acquisition of it nor person done immoderate probe connected it to person an informed opinion.

So arsenic a location pedagogue I would similar to reply to immoderate of the comments.

Why bash location educators enactment their kids done exams early? Mainly truthful they don’t person to beryllium truthful galore astatine once. Why bash that if you don’t person to? There is nary close clip to beryllium exams. If your kid is acceptable for them, they tin beryllium them whenever.

The full constituent of location acquisition is to tailor it to your children. There is nary 1 close mode to bash it.

Secondly, we bash not location amended our children to ‘shield them from existent life’. In fact, excavation acquisition real-life ups and downs arsenic they are not successful the artificial situation of school.

And we don’t beryllium astatine location each day! We person a ample assemblage of radical we interact with regularly, some schooled and home-educated. There is nary request to consciousness negativity to home-educators. We’re conscionable choosing to bash it a antithetic mode to you. We each person a choice.

And to those who accidental that location acquisition contributed to the tragic decease of ten-year-old Sara Sharif due to the fact that she had been taken retired of schoolhouse and teachers could not spot her injuries, I disagree. Social services were alerted to her lawsuit agelong before.

There are horrible radical successful each walks of beingness – and determination are many, galore children who are successful schoolhouse but are being abused undetected astatine home. Tanya East, Sheffield

10 years for throwing a milkshake – but what astir instigating racism?

I americium penning successful effect to Nick Smith (MetroTalk, Wed) saying that Victoria Thomas Bowen should beryllium jailed for 10 years for throwing a milkshake over
Nigel Farage.

I would beryllium funny to cognize what helium thinks a conscionable punishment would beryllium for idiosyncratic who helped instigate contention riots that resulted successful racist thugs trying to pain refugees and Muslims alive. Nadeem Khalid, London

Praise for Tony Blackburn and what bash you telephone your lounge?

Thank you for a fantastic 60 Seconds with Tony Blackburn (Metro, Wed). It truly cheered maine up and I tin lone accidental I privation we had a batch much Tony Blackburns astir arsenic it would marque this satellite a amended and brighter place. Patrick Neville, via email

Is it old-fashioned to accidental ‘sitting room’ these days? I conscionable heard idiosyncratic successful the thoroughfare notation to it arsenic the ‘lounge’. Being calved successful the 1970s, I ever heard my parents telephone it the ‘sitting room’. Holly, London

And a plea for courtesy…

Could I delight inquire that radical halt crossing implicit successful beforehand of others erstwhile getting disconnected a bus/escalator arsenic this could origin the different idiosyncratic to suffer equilibrium oregon fall.
I’m not dependable connected my legs astatine the champion of times and erstwhile radical are getting off, they look to privation to shortcut crossed successful beforehand of the different idiosyncratic arsenic they privation to spell successful the other absorption of wherever they are alighting from.

This makes maine consciousness unbalanced and rather often I consciousness similar I could fall.

It takes nary much than a nanosecond to conscionable get disconnected successful the absorption you are successful and past crook to the absorption you privation to go. Please beryllium much considerate of others. Sheree, Walthamstow

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