YP Letters: Conservatives would have had to deliver on election pledges

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in Hebden Bridge - did he deceive students during the election?

HAVING grandchildren who are going to university this year, they obviously voted Labour in the election. the reason was obvious, no university fees. Why didn’t the Conservative manifesto promise more than they did?

Compared to the Labour manifesto, it looked bleak, more Churchill-like ‘blood, sweat and tears’. Didn’t the Conservative Party want to win the election? The reason is so obvious to me, yet no one to my knowledge ever mentioned this simple rule – manifestos, if you are not in government, are just worthless bits of paper.

A political party can promise the moon safe in the knowledge they will not be elected and they not be held to account. It is, however, a great trick to boost voting numbers and gain a few more seats in Parliament.

The voting public normally spot these tricks, especially older folk with more experience of life.

During the austerity programme even some older folk, no doubt thinking of their children and grandchildren, were lured into the hope that this manifesto was the answer to their hope of debt free education.

So back to my question: Why didn’t the Conservatives offer more? Two reasons, the country could not afford it, but the most important reason is that they would have had to deliver.

From: Joseph Nicholson, Kippax, Leeds.

THE announcement by Jeremy Hunt that an extra 21,000 mental health workers are to be recruited can only be received as a positive thing. If the extra staff being recruited means that the mentally ill will receive better treatment, for example not having to first suffer attending an A&E department, then I welcome more help; it may even encourage those suffering without a diagnosis to approach their GP or Community Mental Health crisis teams.

From: David Craggs, Shafton Gate, Goldthorpe.

IMAGINE the scenario. The year is 2040. It’s a cold winter’s night, following a cloudy day with little wind. Coronation Street (assuming that it’s still on, which it probably will be) has just ended and families are rushing to the kitchen to make a hot drink before the next programme starts.

The central heating system is pumping merrily away and the family car is plugged into the mains to charge the battery for the following day.

Question... where is all this electrical power going to come from?