The Tories can’t continue to use and abuse their power – can they?

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Presumably, the Tories will take into consideration that a different government will, one day, be in power? (AFP via Getty Images)

Francis Maude and his colleagues are determined to make changes to the civil service as a result of their having bullied Raab (poor mite) out of office.

Presumably, the Tories will take into consideration that a different government will, one day, be in power? Such a government could be left wing or, possibly and heaven forfend, even more right wing. The Tories can’t continue to act as though they are simply entitled to power and can use/abuse it as they wish, can they? Will they?

Beryl Wall

London

When it comes to racism we have a social responsibility

I wholeheartedly concur with the thrust of your editorial that we still have a long way to go on antisemitism. Antisemitism is vile, malign, and repugnant to say the least.

Poignantly, Britain is suffering from surging tides of antisemitism along with other debilitating forms of intolerance such as Islamophobia, xenophobia, misogyny, institutionalised racism, and discrimination. We have a social responsibility to adopt integrity, truthfulness, and authenticity in our endeavour to achieve tolerance, equality, and social justice.

Dr Munjed Farid Al Qutob

London

The irony

Tucker Carlson’s last Fox News item was about eating bugs and now he has been squashed.

Maybe Fox is trying to save money after their recent settlement with a number of other cases still to be resolved.

Carlson seemed to be the front person for the “stolen election” on Fox so he would be first to be shot down although he might not have expected to be shot in the back.

Dennis Fitzgerald

Address Supplied

The water industry is profiting from the destruction of our ecosystem

Matt Wheeldon of Wessex Water Company is unabashed at the bonuses paid to him and three other senior managers despite the woeful pollution they caused by dumping raw sewage into our ecosystem.

They, like other water companies, have had over 30 years to improve service and stop dumping but instead have paid exorbitant salaries, bonuses, and fines. The outcome is that customers have paid far too much for their water, and suffer from a less than adequate service while funding an unethical, inefficient, and callously negligent supplier.

Wessex Water aren’t alone in ruining our ecosystem – the whole of the water industry is responsible and rides roughshod over the Water Services Regulation Authority who seem to be toothless and complicit in the whole charade. Hopefully, a change of government will bring about long-overdue change.

Keith Poole

Basingstoke