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The Health Minister has proposed one for hospitals, a reader suggests another to detain failing politicians (Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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‘Ministers should face the same scrutiny as hospitals’
Wes Straating wants to introduce a league table for underperforming hospitals and remove NHS managers who fail to deliver on patient care and finances (Metro, Friday).
Could the health The secretary tells us when there will be a similar ranking for underperforming players government ministers? K Roberts, Essex
‘Making people suffer more than animals is cruel’
A reader shares his experience of watching a family member suffer with no alternative (Credits: Getty Images)
Marker (MetroTalk, Thu) argues against legalizing assisted dying, saying the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Has Mark ever sat in a room for days while his loved one was screaming in pain and dying? When they can’t do anything until they suffocate, their lungs full of fluid? And not the painkillers work?
You wouldn’t let an animal go through that, so why would you let a human go through that?
Having had to see this happen to my mother, I’m all for assisted dying because it’s damn cruel to let them die in so much pain! Gareth Smith, London
Why should MPs decide on assisted death?
Should this bill be put to a public vote? (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
With the vote up the assisted dying bill As I come to it, I find it difficult to understand how the choice to extricate yourself from a potentially horrific and debilitating condition – and face a prolonged, painful death on a mental, physical and emotional level for both the individual and their family – is a decision that must be taken by only 650 sitting MPs.
I appreciate that Sir Keir Starmer has given them a free vote, but we, the electorate, have voted for an MP who will serve/act for us.
With a population of 68 million, based on 2023 figures, it is utterly ridiculous to have such a monumental decision made by just 0.0000095 percent of the population.
The assisted dying bill must be put before the people. Paul Billson, Letchworth Garden City
Benefits for non-members of the EU? Not likely
What is your view on reversing Brexit? (Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey says a ‘rebuilding’ of the EU may be necessary after Brexit.
How they could do this without actually rejoining is beyond me.
One analogy is that if a member of a social club were to leave and stop paying his subscriptions, he could not expect to still receive the benefits that the remaining members paid for (i.e. subsidized bingo tickets and bus trips etc.).
If he continued to receive these benefits, the other members would be outraged and would not tolerate this.
That is similar to what is happening to Britain after Brexit – the other member states would not tolerate us receiving free membership benefits from the EU and they would have every right to vote against! Carlos, Lancashire
‘Labour’s Net Zero Plans threaten to bankrupt Britain’
Keir Starmer told the COP29 climate conference he is committed to a ‘more ambitious’ climate target for Britain – an 81% emissions reduction by 2035 (Photo: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Labor wants us to become world leaders in so-called ‘clean’ energy.
China, meanwhile, wants to be the world leader in making money, regardless of the environmental damage it causes to the world, because the country is responsible for 35 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions.
It also wants to dominate in as many countries as possible.
And still Labor is on its crazy and impossible crusade against carbon emissions to bankrupt our entire economy.
“Come on, lemmings of the world, and jump off this net zero cliff with us,” they shout. Sir Keir, you will be the only one to do it – but all at our expense.
Your pathetic 33 percent of the vote in July is not a mandate. We need a repeat of the bizarre election now, please. Buyer’s remorse is great. Dan Hartley, Solihull
Tattoos and inexperience lead to Trump controversy
Peter Hegseth has dozens of tattoos (Photo: James Devaney/GC Images)
Why this shock? appointment by Donald Trump of Fox News TV host Pete Hegseth as his US Secretary of Defense (Metro, Thursday)?
The objections are that he has no experience in government, but there is no evidence that political experience has enabled governments to deal effectively with the drastic situation in the world.
Second, even more horror, he has tattoos! While I don’t support Trump and don’t care for tattoos, they are personal opinions are hardly an argument for dismissing his appointment to a high position. Carolyn Manley, Hatfield
‘Trump follows Boris’ path to failure’
Boris Johnson was thought to have copied Trump. Now Trump is doing what Boris did when he got rid of the competent ministers and surrounded himself with incompetent people so as not to be challenged.
And look how that destroyed the Conservative Party and the country. Mick, West Midlands
‘Trump’s promises won’t fool voters forever’
Has Trump already promised more than he can deliver? (Photo: Peter Nicholls/Pool/AFP via Getty)
We elected our own ‘Poundland Trump’ in Boris Johnson, but enough of us saw that all he had delivered was deception and mismanagement, and that the next election was decidedly against his party.
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Trump has just as much overpromised, and if the American people get to re-elect in 2029, many will see through Trump’s lies if America doesn’t become as great as he told them it would be. Judy Baldwinson, via email
‘But Trump puts his country first’
Chloe O (MetroTalk, Friday) says Trump plans to “isolate the US and put his country’s needs first at the expense of the rest of the world.”
Oh no, how awful to see the US President putting his citizens first. Perhaps Sir Keir should also put British citizens first, instead of treating us like cash cows. Richard, London
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