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Mick Lynch: champion for workers oregon arguable figure?

‘Mick Lynch is simply a decent, honest, principled person’
Samantha (MetroTalk, Wed) says that soon-to-be retired RMT national person Mick Lynch is ‘one of the astir dishonest, vile radical successful the country’.

These surely cannot beryllium the thoughts of a sane, rational person.

Mick Lynch is simply a decent, honest, principled idiosyncratic who has stood up for his members successful the look of a Labour Party that mostly failed to amusement enactment for striking workers and a Tory Party intent to disrupt negotiations astatine each opportunity.

He volition surely beryllium missed and
I anticipation helium continues to marque his dependable heard. Niall-Blum Stevenson, Linlithgow

Does Elon Musk person much power connected argumentation than survivors?

‘The authorities ignored survivors for years until Elon Musk stepped in’
Abuse survivors spent years warring for a deeper enquiry into the grooming gangs and nary 1 cared.

Then 1 overseas billionaire, Elon Musk, agitates for it and each of a abrupt it’s happening.

This perfectly sums up the authorities of authorities successful this country.

Different perspectives springiness a broader knowing of our world, which is indispensable for making the close decisions.

But immoderate position extracurricular the Whitehall bubble – the rich, the almighty and the media – gets ignored. Until we person a strategy that gives everyone a voice, we volition ne'er person bully leadership. Rob Slater, Norfolk

Tony Blair’s not solely to blasted for playing tract sales…

‘Blair’s authorities sold 246 fields; the tories sold 279’
I cognize galore presumption Tony Blair arsenic the anti-Christ but Madeline Bates (MetroTalk, Fri) is wide of the people erstwhile she blames him for selling disconnected schoolhouse playing fields.

Government figures amusement that betwixt 2001 and 2010, determination were 246 approved applications for playing tract onshore disposal and 279 betwixt 2010-2023. Martin, London

Should businesses that judge currency beryllium held accountable?

‘Cash-only businesses fell from HMRC – however overmuch is this costing nationalist services’
JW (MetroTalk, Fri) says they person ‘stopped utilizing supermarkets that discriminate against currency payers astatine self-checkouts’.

Have they considered the scope of precocious thoroughfare businesses that lone instrumentality cash? Many barbers, nail bars and others garbage physics payments, presumably to fell their turnover from HMRC. Does JW deliberation that is acceptable? Imagine the outgo of that fraud and the services it mightiness impact. Imagine the other constabulary oregon aesculapian staff.

I person paid electronically for six years and usage currency astir doubly a year, usually to springiness the stateless a helping hand. Henry, Greenwich

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