Time to chase Tories out once and for all

IN his pre-budget column (Taking stock on budget day: UK economy 'promising but precarious), Julian Sturdy MP writes as if the previous 13 years have not happened, as if the Tories have just rocked up to right all the wrongs visited upon the nation.

Thirteen years of Tory misrule have brought the country to its knees. Thirteen years of Tory misrule have enabled the most corrupt government in British political history. Thirteen years of Tory misrule have destroyed our country’s global standing. Sturdy can virtue signal all he likes but the voters of York Outer will not be fooled. It is time to chase these blue-rosetted charlatans out of town once and for all.

Dr Daniel Roy Connelly

PPC for York Outer

True & Fair Party

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Thanks for the story

I ENJOYED the double-page spread about York Aerodrome (The Press, March 14).

In 1999 the Yorkshire Air Museum published a book entitled The Airport That Never Was - the story of Clifton Airfield, York by the Museum’s newsletter editor, Norman Spence, who died a few weeks ago.

Now out of print, this volume throws more light and detail on this slice of York history.

The aerodrome boasted a well-appointed ‘Deco-esque’ clubhouse, long gone.

Derek Reed

Middlethorpe Drive

York

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NSPCC Supporter Fundraising Manager

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Some thoughts...

* THANKS to weak kneed, inept management at the BBC, who should have sacked both Gary Lineker and cohorts, Lineker considers himself now untouchable, free with others to pontificate controversial opinions at will - an utter disgrace.

* When the Government is having to bribe people to find work it somewhat contradicts the view held by Labour that people cant afford to live.

* When doctors titled as "juniors" are seen arriving for work in vehicles costing over £60,000 it makes their claim of hardship appear somewhat insulting to those in society who live, without complaining, on half the cost of the car.

Peter Rickaby,

West Park,

Selby