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Council repairs...the row goes on
THANK you 'Name and address supplied' (YEP, June 13). I do appreciate your response to my letters concerning Leeds City Council text/phone messages to tenants about repairs and if your claim that "texts don't cost half as much money as the 'no accesses'" then good!
Can I ask you to forward proof of this to the YEP so that folk can read it for themselves?
In contrast to your explanation for the cost for the council when contractors are paid whether or not the customer is in, I have heard of tenants (employed ones), who have taken time off work and have either lost a day's wage or forgone a day as a holiday for repairs to be done and the engineer/trades person has not turned up!
As for your obvious discriminatory comments about folk on benefits "Mostly these people have no commitment to work", can you show evidence of this?
As you are speaking on behalf of the council are you not bringing the council into disrepute with this kind of remark?
Your attack on me about my apparent disliking of the service that the council provides is unfounded, as I do appreciate workers who turn up on the said day and do their jobs correctly!
I have always found them professional and polite! If I were to pay and use my own contractors to make repairs to the property I live in, then I would not be able to retreive the said monies from the council.
I ask would you do what you suggest I do?
Nick Pearson, St Wilfrid's Circus, Leeds
Pleasing just some of the people...
As one of the founder members of the Access Committee for Leeds, I was shocked at the letter from Mr John Selby (YEP June 1).
We are one of a very few independent peer-led organisations who have campaigned tirelessly over the last 15 years to increase understanding of the access and inclusion rights of disabled and older people here in Leeds.
Our work has received local and national recognition for its expertise, practical knowledge and development of best practice solutions and Mr Selby's views would seem to be at the least in a small minority, but as the saying goes, "you can please some of the people all of the time".
David Cuthbert, Trustee, Access Committee for Leeds, Mariners Resource Centre.
What is government?
The definition of government in my dictionary is 1. Exercise of authority over a state (of people). Well, we get plenty of that. 2. A system of ruling or political administration. Yes, we've plenty of that as well. 3. Forming a system of policy in a state.
What is that? I cannot see much policy.
What about countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China, which have developed rapidly, their massive populations? They are competing with the UK to buy better food, for example meat for their population, thus pushing up prices, oil also.
The last thing this country needs is more and more people who will become dependent pensioners in the historical blink of an eye.
If there are not more sensible policies emanating from this Government, Britain could well become a third world country with hordes of people jockeying for housing, healthcare and road space.
Adrian Childs, Great Northern Street, Morley, Leeds.
Views so innocent
I have to laugh at so many of the letters I read. What is it with all the disgust about the parliamentary expenses?
They are MPs, so what else do the public expect? Do they think they are doing the job for the public good? Oh! The innocence I see in your column.
Do the public think that successive governments, and I mean of both extremes or middle if you like, have ruined the country accidently?
Can't they see, that demolishing the health service, education, fire, police, prisons, roads, our financial institutions, the economics of the country, having no immigration policy, giving away our sovereignty, funding the European nightmare, allowing the horrors of political correctness, rampant crime and Health and Safety, to name only a few, are not done by accident, or failure to do the job properly. It cannot be accidental – no organisations could be so inept, surely?
Don't the people realise that in destroying everything that they touch, politicians have two main purposes, firstly to ensure that we are all happy for our country to cease to exist, it being so bad that we don't want to live here any more and are ready to embrace Europe.
Secondly, that the aged population, having lived in a more honest age, are happy to pass on to the next world because it can't be as bad as the one that politicians have created and of which they are sick and tired.
Oh wonderful world.
Dennis Clarkson, Millgate, Ackworth, Pontefract
An ode to MPs' expenses...
They've caught Bill the burglar,
Who's burgla'd half our street,
His haul has been tvs and such
And once, a three-piece suite!
But now the police have him
Red handed with his sack,
And Bill has said he's sorry and he'll give the items back.
He can't think how it happened,
Why he's stolen all these things,
From fancy household items to precious golden things
But somehow he'll recover everything he ever took
And hopes that everybody will, his sins please overlook.
It's the same with poiticians, that are singing the same song
They really didn't mean it – didn't know that it was wrong.
But if we attempt to do the same, we will get a nasty shock
'Cos sure as eggs is eggs" we will end up in the dock.
Sandra Morris, Highmoor Close, Leeds
A barrier to our progress
As a daily commuter through Leeds City Station, I am sufficiently enraged to ask, "What on earth do the station managers intend to do about the ticket barriers which did not work from day one, still do not work and I am convinced will never work?"
I insert my pristine ticket into the appropriate slot, knowing before I do so, that it will mock me by bobbing in and out of the slot, hardly displaying a sufficient portion of my ticket to be able to retrieve it without being extremely adept and alert, which I find quite challenging at 6.30am in the morning.
There usually, is quite fortunately, a helping swipe of an access card, from a member of the station staff, available after I have run up and down like a ferret at the back of these monstrosities which are denying me access to the outside world.
My partner actually got caught in one of the gates this morning as it closed quickly as she was braving the race of death through an already open barrier.
Sorry managers, you have invested in pieces of useless equipment which are not fit for purpose, now please do something about it before I have to approach these devices with a crowbar in my hand every morning.
Steve Littlewood, Micklefield
Bus services axed
We have just nicely got into the swing of using our free bus passes, but instead of making it easier for us to get to places by public transport, the bus company has decided to axe the No 44a which serves the Owlcoates complex for a few hours on Mondays to Fridays from Leeds and Pudsey.
Also to be axed, the No 711, a service which takes 30 minutes from Pudsey to White Rose Centre.
Axing that bus will mean a journey of at least 1.5 hours on a good day. This bus is also a quick service to Bradford from Pudsey.
J Stead, Pudsey
Why pay to keep these evil people?
Every day in this country, murders are being committed, innocent children are being brutalised, by those, who if and when caught, are tried and given lenient sentences by our soft courts and sent to our 5-star hotels, sorry prisons, where everything is provided for them.
Four good meals a day, nice and warm in winter in their luxury rooms, TVs to watch all day, mobile phones to get in touch with their friends.
Why should these evil people be allowed to live after committing these crimes, costing the decent taxpayers millions of pounds a year? They should be done away with.
Our prisons are all overcrowded by these people, it's not good building more as these will be filled as well. The death penalty should be brought back now.
A Britt, Dewsbury Road, Leeds
Roads spoiled day
Can I thank Leeds City Council for giving us the opportunity to buy the surplus plants and flowers from their greenhouses off Red Hall Lane, but that is where my appreciation finishes, because the lane, like many other roads around Leeds, was in a deplorable state.
It is bad enough having to drive over speed bumps but you do not expect a lane that is connected to the council to be in such a state.
B Brady, Manston, Leeds
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