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‘Congratulations to Metro’, says reader
Congratulations on the award for your campaign This Is Not Right (Metro, Mon), which highlights the national emergency of violence against women and girls.
The recognition came from UK charity End Violence Against Women Coalition. I have signed Melanie Brown’s Family Courts Petition on the Women’s Aid website. It calls for training for judges on the meaning and impact of domestic violence, after mothers told the charity their children were being put at risk during contact visits by abusive fathers.
We live in an absurd world where we have to campaign to keep victims of abuse and their children safe from the legal system that is supposed to protect them. Beverley, York
‘Hate Tommy Robinson if you must, but that’s a far greater emotion than he deserves’, says reader
‘Rage bait’ – a term for online content intended to elicit anger or outrage – has been named the Oxford University Press word of the year (Metro, Tue).
‘Meh bait’, more like. People such as far-right Tommy Whats-his-face – who among his many provocations scored an own goal after insinuating the woman filmed with Gary Lineker was someone other than his daughter-in-law (Metro.co.uk, Tue) – exist only to provoke and annoy. They are like the parasites that exist off larger animals without whom they would have no life. Hate him if you must but that’s an emotion far greater than he deserves. Ignore him and eventually he will be seen as the waste of oxygen he is. Alexis, Bristol
Reader questions ‘How dare America tell us whether the Chinese can build their Embassy in London?’
We are lumbered with a pusillanimous prime minister who is in an economic, political and moral wilderness, leading a flock of witless sheep. How many frequent flier miles has Keir Starmer clocked up between No.10 and Donald Trump’s genuflection mat in the White House?
How dare America tell us whether the Chinese can build their Embassy in London? How dare America tell us to change our abortion laws or what we can buy from Russia and India? Get up off your knees, Mr Starmer, and start behaving like a prime minister. Doug of Currie
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Should Rachel Reeves lose her job?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves shouldn’t lose her job over claims she misled the public over the state of our finances before the Budget (Metro, Mon).
That’s what politicians do. David Cameron kept claiming we were all getting poorer because of ‘the mess left by the last Labour government’ long after his government should have cleaned it up.
Reeves shouldn’t be sacked because she used outdated economic forecasts. She should be sacked because she’s incompetent, failed to tackle the real problems facing Britain and because she seems hellbent on destroying the environment and frying our brains with AI. She should be sacked because she cares more about markets than she does about people.
Most of all, she should be sacked because if anyone else was doing a job as badly as she is, they would be sacked, too. Charlie Parrett, Stoke
Reeves’ budget was ‘bland’, says reader
The truth about Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that it was very bland. Very little has changed but we have a hysterical media class that is exhausting the public with its hyperventilating over minor issues. Philip Duval, Manchester
Did Tories ‘waste money’?
Gary (MetroTalk, Tue) suggests the government will have ‘plenty of money to waste’ once it sorts out the NHS and the welfare state.
As with most Labour governments, the money is actually spent on us. If you want a discussion on wasting money, the previous Tory government were the masters. Simon, Luton
Would the Royal Family and politicians lie to you?
Now is the time for a special edition of the TV show Would I Lie to You?, with one team being members of Labour Party and the other being members of the royal family. Malco, Chislehurst
