The Tories have set the tone for P&O Ferries’ outrageous behaviour

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It isn’t surprising that P&O Ferries can consider illegally sacking 800 employees without consultation (PA)

It isn’t surprising, as Susan Alexander’s letter succinctly states, that P&O Ferries can consider illegally sacking 800 employees without consultation.

With the way Boris Johnson and other Tory MPs treat their staff, lie and alter the moral compass of the party with impunity, is it any wonder that businesses are following suit?

Mr Johnson and the Tory party, through his (non)leadership, have become a party of baying, worthy acolytes. Our social, political and business spheres were cemented together by a deeply, innately rooted moral dependence. However, since Mr Johnson and his party came to power, that precursor has been washed away.

The Tory party pays only lip service to the needs of the people, using lies and deceitful methods in order to benefit their hold on power and those that support them.

Hopefully they will be found out at the next general election.

Keith Poole

Basingstoke

Special needs schools

I know it’s tough James Moore, but keep fighting. We have been helping a young friend whose eight-year old-had hardly had a day’s schooling until she finally got him a special school place this year.

The council’s lawyers were, as you say, hugely unhelpful. When we finally got to the tribunal they had nothing to say. Why can’t they spend all that money on meeting the children’s needs?

Anthony Nixon

Hampshire

Schoolboy excuses

It wasn’t me, guv. Honest. I would have reduced energy bills, but that nasty chancellor would let me.

This classic schoolboy-type excuse is perhaps typical of the overgrown schoolboy we have in charge of the country.

We are told that the prime minister’s plan to cap energy costs was blocked by the chancellor.

Clearly this is the line taken by No 10 as it both shows the PM in a better light after the almighty backlash against the chancellor’s mini-Budget and casts the PM’s main rival for the premiership as the pantomime villain.

But how true is it, and are we really expected to believe it? Surely the prime minister runs the country, sets the agenda and tone of policy and can override the chancellor should he desire to do so, but clearly it is not in his best interest to do so.

Nigel Groom

Witham, Essex

Taking away asylum seekers’ phones

Priti Patel’s cruelty towards asylum seekers should be a source of acute shame and embarrassment to Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party.

The fact that Patel’s consistently appalling behaviour obviously isn’t a problem for them demonstrates that they are wholly unfit for office.

D Maughan Brown

York

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Tidal energy

To meet our climate targets, as well as guaranteeing a reliable electrical baseload, without making us dependent on global fossil fuel prices or global political uncertainties, we need to build tidal power stations around our coasts and tidal rivers.

Forget wasting billions of taxpayers’ money entreating foreign companies to build nuclear stations. Nuclear power is not green because of the waste it creates and it still makes us dependent on other countries. Nuclear power also costs more per megawatt to produce than renewables. So why bother with nuclear, when it makes no economic sense?

Tidal generations will make the UK truly green and truly independent. Tidal is not dependent on weather conditions, unlike solar power or wind turbines.

Tidal has all the advantages of nuclear (available 24/7), without all the disadvantages (nuclear waste). If we build a surplus of green electrical generation, which we need to meet future demand, we could even sell any excess to Europe.

Why is tidal being ignored? It is perfect for an island nation.

AC Buck

Wellingborough