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Would crime rates drop if men had an 8pm curfew?
I’ve raised this thought among friends but share it here in light of Metro’s This Is Not Right campaign highlighting violence against girls and women, and what poor Sarah Everard’s last moments were like before being killed by police officer Wayne Couzens (Metro, Wed).
What if there was a curfew on men not being allowed out past, let’s say, 8pm? What do we think would happen?
Would crime rates massively drop? Would women then feel safer and be able to leave their homes? Or would women then take up the role of the man and commit some of the crimes not being committed by the men? Hayley, Sidcup
Is Your Party’s infighting history repeating itself?
Craig Munro’s report on the infighting at the Your Party conference (Metro, Tue) reminds me of the comment by journalist Bernard Levin many years ago when two parties of the extreme left – the Socialist Workers Party and the Workers Revolutionary Party were at loggerheads. ‘Factions which deal in fictions,’ he said, ‘suffer from frictions and split into fractions.’ Michael Perrins, Luton
Current political climate like an episode of ‘Yes, Minister?, says reader
News that Avanti is running empty trains from Manchester to London to help with ‘service recovery’ (Metro, Mon), conjures up fond memories of the Yes, Minister sketch when Sir Humphrey informs Jim Hacker about the country’s most efficient hospital. It has no patients, no doctors and no nurses – just administrators! Fin, Manchester
Who has wasted more taxpayer money – Labour of the Tories?
Simon (MetroTalk, Wed) says it is past Tory governments rather than Labour who are ‘masters’ of wasting money.
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If you are going to write in, at least give an example – I’m not sure why his feeble view was even printed?
The previous Tory government had Covid to deal with and pay for. Under this government, we have some of the highest debt, borrowing and taxes in history – all to pay for a ballooning welfare state, supporting people (not all) with dubious health issues. Denise, London
‘Let’s not run the labour narrative of ‘blame the Tories”, says reader
Simon says Labour is spending money on ‘us’. They’re not spending any money on me.
I work and earn my money and will be paying more taxes because of the Budget.
I am also old enough to remember the last time we had a Labour government and the mess they left the country in when they got voted out. So let’s not just run out the Labour narrative of ‘blame the Tories’. Gary, Essex
This reader says people need to see tax as ‘the subscription we pay to live in a civilised society’
Tax is the subscription I pay to live in a civilised society. People would do well to remember that. Our relationship with tax is warped. Yann, Manchester
‘More positivity please’, says reader
What a country. We’ve had a naturist punched off his bike, women joggers leered at, Muslims and Jews spat at… It makes me ashamed to be British – what’s wrong with these morons?
So I was heartened to read that a lot of people actually do good things – such as giving to charity and the small stuff like simply smiling and chatting to strangers (Metro, Tue). Well done, us. More positivity, please. Sylvie Orp, Bromley
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