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Blame ... Dimitar Berbatov

Blame ... Dimitar Berbatov

Crisis chief had to quit

  

  

THE Met’s reputation had been in meltdown for years as Sir Ian Blair stumbled from one crisis to another.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith didn’t have the bottle to sack him and did nothing to persuade him to stay.

Boris Johnson has done the Government a favour by getting Blair to quit and it is convenient to pin the blame on him.

E MARTIN
by email

THE resignation of Sir Ian Blair was to be expected.

He was in a situation where he was being made a scapegoat for all that has gone wrong.

The police force have become far too controlled by politics.

TONY RICHARDS
Halifax, W Yorks

Out ... Sir Ian Blair

Out ... Sir Ian Blair

SIR Ian was too much the politician — doing great PR — and too little the policeman.

Jacqui Smith said in January she would not feel safe walking the streets of London alone at night.

But then she doesn’t have to — she’d never set foot outside without armed police by her side.

HARRY JAMES
Brighton

SIR Ian Blair needed to be forced from office.

His politically correct stance on policing only served to hinder front line coppers from doing their jobs properly.

Hopefully the person put in charge next will try and serve the whole community as opposed to being a political drone only interested in performance figures.

MATTHEW HUNT
Lincoln

MOST Londoners will be glad to see the back of the lamentable Ian Blair.

He has epitomised one of the very worst aspects of the last eleven years of Labour.

JAMES RUSH
London

PM blames the US, says the headline on the credit crunch.

Gordon Brown blames everyone but himself and his party.

For the past decade he has spent and borrowed.

Had he shown the “prudence” he claimed, our country could quite possibly have weathered the financial storm.

PATRICK BURGESS
Chatham, Kent

GOOD to read that David Cameron would withdraw the £38million Britain gives to China.

Our own old-age pensioners would be worthy beneficiaries instead as they are among the lowest paid in the EU.

SUE REDDAN
Middlewich, Cheshire

IT is unbelievable that a baying mob could urge a 17-year-old suicidal lad, to jump 60ft to his death from a multi-storey car park near Derby city centre.

These so-called human beings obviously have something lacking.

JAMES RANDALL
Manchester

IN reply to Terence Robinson’s letter concerning cyclists, I ride my bike daily to work and only go on the road when necessary as I have been knocked off six times.

Twice I was seriously hurt and two other occasions were hit-and-runs.

There are a limited number, or no bike lanes, to use.

DAVID McCABE
Doncaster, S Yorks

IT’S such a shame Jamie Oliver met so many people in Rotherham whose benefits couldn’t stretch to feeding their kids proper food.

I can’t wait to see how these spongers will cope when Gordon Brown finally gets rid of “something for nothing Britain”.

ANDREW CARLISLE
Brondesbury NW London

GIVEN that Edensor Technology College was to be closed for two days, why did the teachers not choose to hold their conference in the school hall instead of going all the way to costly Marbella?

It would have cost nothing.

CHRISTINA SAVAGE
by email

 

Tell Britain what you think

TERRY Venables and Ian Wright blame Dimitar Berbatov for Tottenham’s bad start.

Are they forgetting the class act Tottenham let slip away — Jermain Defoe, who had to leave because they kept sidelining him? If he was still with Tottenham I’m sure things would be different.

MICHAEL BULLEY
Tadley, Hants

IF Gordon Brown has money to bail out shabby banks, the money would be better spent reintroducing mortgage interest tax relief.

Then people would be able to pay their mortgages and the banks would get their money.

PETER DUNCAN
Mold, Flints

AS a trainee nurse Natalie Jackson should know better than to eat at her local KFC three times a week.

Do yourself and the NHS a favour and stick by your decision not to go back.

Your health will improve enormously.

JULIE MURPHY
Selly Oak, W Mids

SO nobody wants Gary Glitter then. I have an idea. Why doesn’t he move into the spare bedroom at Cherie Blair’s house?

That way we will see how far she is willing to go with her human rights views, or if it is all just hot air to get attention.

WAYNE HARDY
Doncaster, S Yorks

THE midwife suing the couple for tripping over their pram should be ashamed of herself.

Times are hard enough at the moment without this kind of greedy US approach to minor incidents.

NICOLA CHALK
Bracknell, Berks

AGAIN I see readers commenting on the family courts’ apparent bias toward mothers.

In my experience this is not true and, as I go through the system, I am learning of many more mothers who know different.

It appears many judges are making decisions in favour of the fathers in response to the public view.

NAME & ADDRESS SUPPLED

PAUL Burrell was accused endlessly of cashing in on Princess Diana’s name.

The nanny who made £21,000 by selling four letters written by Diana shows that if anyone can exploit Diana for profit, not just Burrell, they will do so.

PAM HALL
Manchester

Gorgeous ... Cheryl Cole

Gorgeous ... Cheryl Cole

CHERYL Cole and Dannii Minogue are both gorgeous X Factor judges, but Cheryl seems to have the camera on her more than the actual contestants.

Are the producers trying to stir up a jealousy rift between them?

PAULA BIBBY
Rainham, Essex

AMY Winehouse should not be allowed near 12-year-old Dionne Bromfield.

Why are her parents allowing their child near this women?

The club or pub should be prosecuted for allowing this young girl into their venues. She needs protecting.

MIKE EVANS
Watford, Herts

I’M chuffed for Ianthe Fullagar, who won the lottery.

She says she is going to bank her £7million.

Where?

DAVE LEVER
Ipswich

A BIG thank you to Joanna Lumley and all those who fought for the rights of the Ghurkhas.

GORDON HETHERINGTON
Newcastle Upon Tyne

IN my Sun last Wednesday, nearly every page had adverts for food from Tesco and Asda.

If Tesco is so worried about Aldi nicking customers all they have to do is keep their prices as low and stop cluttering up the pages of my paper.

JOHN TUCKER
Luton, Beds

POLICE can't seem to deal with bad behaviour now so Sgt Richard Curran thinks the idea that ‘sentencing these yobs’ to become scouts, is a good idea.

To expect hard-working volunteer scout leaders to do the police work of monitoring the ill-behaved youngsters stinks.

CHRISTOPHER HOPKINS
Wantage, Oxfordshire

 

 

I AM so glad Nigel Walton has been jailed for driving at a flock of sheep. It’s a shame it wasn’t for longer.

DAVID

I WAS disgusted by the mob that urged Shaun Dykes 2 jump 2 his death. Has the human race lost all compassion?

ANON

WHAT planet is Cherie Blair living on to say everyone’s human rights are defended? Unless u r English, of course, she should have said.

PENNY

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T.K. Maxx are a disgrace for selling the “knife jacket”. They should b banned from trading.

PEG

STEAL a car or carry a knife – both can kill yet you can be let off if you join the Scouts. What a load of b . . . rown owls.

PHIL

IF Natalie Jackson consumed a normal amount of food, for a land mammal, she wouldn’t have got a parking fine.

TIM

NOW the Gurkhas have won their case, let’s use the spare plinth in Trafalgar Square for a statue dedicated to them.

ANON

WHY are there so many obese families pleading poverty in the UK? If they cut down on their eating they could afford 2 have the heating on.

RUTH


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