Dear Sir,
Top marks to Hugh Ash for describing the U.N. as "the increasingly irrelevant and discredited institution of the United Nations" in his Sunday Comment. Is it too much to hope that Ray Fleming will now stop using its resolutions in his anti-Israel tirades?
Anton Barkhuysen
Santa Eugenia
Dear Sir,
I wonder if you can remember the song What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours?
Reading the two columns, one an Editorial - Saturday and Sunday), you wrote off the Prime Minister, following his defeat in Parliament on the question of some sort of military action in Syria, and most of the media in Britain, plus inevitably the anti-Tory BBC, that never misses an opportunity to kick a man when he is down. But, 24 hours later, it emerges from Washington, that President Obama, is following the same path as Mr Cameron, in going to Congress for their support on military action, that both he and the PM have espoused. This, though, will not be for ten days or so, which is by no means a certainty, he will obtain.
I am aware that a President in America does not need Congressional support, but in these circumstances, I think he would hesitate to act unilaterally.
You have described Mr Cameron as a ‘lame-duck’ Prime Minister and likely to be ousted, which I believe to be absolutely a wrong deduction. I think, Mr Moore, that this duck will recover the use of propulsion very quickly, and I am willing to bet you (no money!) that Mr Cameron will gain an overwhelming majority of votes from Tory MP’s and from the country at the next General Election.
Yours Sincerely,
Phil Green
El Toro
Dear Sir,
As an avid reader of the Bulletin I doubt that I am alone in disagreeing with Mr Fleming on an almost daily basis. I usually roll my eyes, tut quietly to myself and move on swiftly!
I cannot, however, allow Mr Fleming to rewrite the etymology of the word "omnishambles". Contrary to Mr Fleming’s assertion it was not coined "for a previous Conservative mess-up". "Omnishambles" is a neologism first used in the BBC political satire "The Thick Of It" in respect of a satirical Labour government based on the "spin machine" of the Blair administration.
Yours faithfully
James Martin
Puerto Pollensa & Surrey
Dear Sir,
Those bewailing that we have let the Americans down in time of battle should remember Suez in 1956 when we were on the verge of stopping Nasser from destabilizing the Middle East, when not only did the Americans not support us but actively prevented us from completing the job, thus bringing about the chaotic state which prevails there to this day. (I was there).
Yours etc
Nicholas Carter