Daily Mail Letters

Today's main letter carries the headline: WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE FAILURE TO PROTECT PENSIONS? to which we all reply "The government that got rid of the earnings link".

In other news, today's debate is a Littlejohn pleasing "Should gay partnerships be equal to marriage?" Tom and Edna Hamblin manage to get in some Nazis:

After World War II, the Nazis' defence was; 'We were only following orders'. The verdict, however, was that they had a moral obligation to defy orders that were clearly evil. Melanie Phillips warns all religious people that the Equality act will discriminate against faiths which teach that same-sex relationships are unholy.

I'm really not sure what the point is here. Are they saying that giving homosexual couples equal rights is akin to the orders Hitler gave during WW2?

Mike Klokkou also bats for the no side:

If men and women wish to enter same-sex relationships, that's no affair of mine

Really?

But I draw the line at their being treated on a par with heterosexual couples

Why? Is there such a major difference that gay people should be treated as inferior? Anyway, as you said, it's no affair of yours.

Are you sitting uncomfortably? Then Peter Harper shall begin:

I endorse Dr Tony Sewell's assertion that boys are failing at school because schools and their lessons have become feminised. For three and a half decades feminism has corroded and destabilised Western societies. This movement has encouraged feminist teachers to abuse their positions of responsibilty by nurturing feelings of superiority in girls and inferiority in boys.
A whole sea change in attitude throughout education is overdue. And that goes for politics, too. We do not need women or ethnic minorities.

Ladies? I think he's single...

Conspiracy ahoy from A. Kipps:

'Why have our police force lost all common sense?' (Mail). The new thinking comes from the top, not just from within the police service but the Home Office.
In the mid-eighties, the Home Office imposed a requirement on police authorities that all candidates for senior appointments had to have its approval.
It became an open secret that this was about an enthusiasm for speaking and acting 'PC'. From then on, every officer knew this criterion was paramount and careers were made or broken on it

"But Mr. Kipps, the 1980s had a Conservative government. How do you get round that?" I hear you ask

Ever since the war, the upper ranks of the Home Office have been heavily infiltrated by Left-wingers whose strategies, as in the case of the immigration programme which it has masterminded, are now bearing fruit

Right. The Home Office is run by left-wingers. And nice dig at immigration slipped in there at the end. Well done you. Not.

Now, todays DEBATE! is "Are the police being criticised unfairly?" Which means one side lays into the police, the other lays into Muslims. As so, from Kenneth Baldwin:

All Muslims in our community should accept that when the Muslim terrorists stop the killing of innocent men, women and children of all races and cultures then our police will have no cause whatsoever to raid any Muslims in their homes

Surely it is the home that's raided, not the person?

The family who were raided are demanding an apology. My response is: when will the Islamic authorities apologise to the British victims of Muslim terrorists?

Let me put you straight.
British police force = responsibility of British government
Muslim terrorists = NOT responsibility of 'Islamic authorities'

And to round off the week, we have Mike Wilson:

When Charlotte Church sings now, is it all over?

She's size f'ing 12!!!! If that's fat, then the majority of people are morbidly obese.

Into the first Letters blog of the world cup. And to B. Warner, from Christchurch:

Yesterday I was sitting in my car when a beautiful young woman walked by. She wore tight jeans and a fitted blouse over a lovely figure. She had long legs, a shapely behind, a slim waist and was altogether a beautifu; sight. She was also wearing an Islamic black headscarf.
What kind of hypocritcal nonsense have these people introduced to our country?

BAN SEXY MUSLIM GIRLS NOW!!! Seriously... "these people", "Our country" - is it just me or is this guy a bit of a racist? I actually know someone who fits the girl's description and, quite frankly, any nonsense she has would have been picked up in the country her family have lived in for 50-odd years.

PS- What's Islamic black? I've not seen it on any B&Q colour charts.

More slightly pervy ramblings from P. Strong:

As soon as the sun comes out, young women proudly display more bosom than used to be allowed in the 'girly' mags when I was a lad. I'm not complaining. I just wonder what they wear to go out in the evening, or to get a bloke' interest in the bedroom

Nothing, I'd imagine.

I know, I know, I haven't been posting as much as I should. But it's exam season, and getting into Uni is further up my list than getting in a dig at the Mail (which is second). But here we go for today's Countdown Conumdrum letters.

David Reeve:

The knife problem was once solved 50 years ago. As a young lad in Glasgow, I and my friends were set to buy cut-throat razors because all the big boys and hard men had them. Fortunately a new circuit judge came along and, instead of the usual six months, he handed out five and seven year sentences. The streets were full of discarded razors

Yeah, I think that causes more problems than it solves.

The fantastically named Gordon Lawson Hedley (I kid you not):

I know nowt about art- but I do know about carts (I still use them) and Constable's Hay Wain is all wrong

Ban art now!

Some vagina-ing on about football now, courtesy of P. Riding:

[David Beckham] being given 15 minutes behind locked doors simply to browse in a department store is just sick. Thousands of people are tired of the whole 'aren't I wonderful' performance

I'm sure that if you got mobbed whenever you went to the shop, you'd want them to close the store while you shopped too.
Besides, how much can you look at in a department store in 15 minutes?

William Hammond, whom I have decided to call Willy because, well...I just do is now ready for a rant about...I dunno, I haven't even read it:

The blame for 'killing off marriage' lies firmly with the growing non-judgemental, politically correct attitude pervading our society.

Excellent..a PC rant. Now taking bets about how long before he mentions 'insanity' or 'madness'.

Today, we have a society fragemented by various ideas of what is right and wrong, and a government that proclaims all lifestyles equaly valid

Uh-oh.. I sense an anti-something spewing coming on

That can only be described as communal insanity

YAY! Anyone who bet that we'd get insanity in 10 lines' time wins!

In our politically correct society, we aren't allowed to say why [knife crime is out of control and CCTV cameras record obnoxious behaviour late in the evening]. To state the real reason is to risk prosecution or to be accused of various forms of phobia

Debate today is about terror raids. Says Sheila Harris:

If sections of the Muslim community stopped trying to kill us, there would be no problem. It's high time that people realised that if they live in this country, they should accept the status quo, or go and live in a much more restrictive Muslim society.

I'm gonna remember that one!

Letters today are courtesy of Della Petch:

Why are the Welsh, Scots and English treated differently when they go to their GP? The English patient will have to pay almost £7/item on their proescription, but the Welsh patient pays only £3

Presumably something to do with Health spending being decided by Wales and Scotland's regional assemblies. But unusually for the Mail, a good point is (maybe unwittingly) raised here about Scottish and Welsh MPs voting on English issues. It's a tricky situation.

Thanks to J. Evans for changing all the ads on here to Luton Airport. Still, he may no longer have trouble parking. Anyway, the Mail today, and J.G. Riseley:

I don't want foreign criminals deported: they and their home grown equivalents should be permanently locked up

What? Permanent life sentences as soon as foreigners commit any crime? Even in their own country? I think we all know what to say here...

Once again, we return to the idiocy that makes up the Daily Mail letters page. Our old friend parking returns in a letter from David Britton:

Using a Midlands city car park recently, I had to enter my registration number into the machine. The only reason for this is to stop anyone giving unexpired time to someone else - one of the few small acts of decency associated with modern life.
These councils have forced us into their over-priced car parks by painting yellow lines everywhere. What right has some petty council jobsworth to tell us we can't give away something for which we've paid?

I'm sure I've said this before, so for the benefit of Mail readers:

If you don't like this:

Use this:

Colin Nicol is the next...well, I'll let you decide what he is:

As a blue-chip customer of Barclays for 41, I was staggered to pick up a ball-point pen from my local branch and find it imprinted with 'Borrowed from Barclays bank'. I couldn't believe that in this age of throwaway promotional tat, a ball-point, costing pennies could not be given away with compliments.

The bank is not obliged by any means to give you a pen. In any case as a 'promotional' item, it should have the bank name on it! I can't believe that people could be this ungrateful. In future, Mr Nicol, if you want pens without things written on them, I suggest you buy them.

Grrr...not happy now. Some German guy called Dr Friese, now:

When it comes to football, you'll always be losers. You should stick to cricket or other funny sports where the competition is less fierce.

And you should stick to your own borders (I apologise wholeheartedly for that - of course, past politics are no indicator of how the future will be. Oh! Just like past performance in sports is no indicator of future performance. Of course, having said that, we are quite crap)

A question from David Morgan:

How long before Manchester Airport becomes Wayne Rooney Airport

It'll be a long time before Manchester Airport is named after a Liverpudlian!