Promises that go stale
| Published date | 13 September 2021 |
| Publication title | Evening Gazette |
The key trademark of a politician is to overpromise and underdeliver.
Get those credentials right and you are half way there to becoming a top cabinet minister. The list of political broken promises is laid bare for all to see: the OAPs free TV licence - ditched.
The triple lock pension - set to be ditched. National Insurance contributions - heading to a town near you very soon.
It's like the charge of the tax brigade, despite a pre-election promise swearing blind not to raise taxes within the current Parliament.
We are all aware taxes are essential to run a country, so why did the Conservatives make such an outrageous promise?
Yes, it was most certainly a eye-catching vote winner, as it got the party elected by a whopping majority.
But be warned - the public can be most unforgiving,they do not like to be conned.
The cabinet are now scrambling about like headless chickens in search of new cunning ways to tax the British public.
Stephen Dixon, Redcar
Boxing is a different sport entirely IN his letter - The Gazette 06.09.21 - E Watson takes me to task over my letter in response to Kenny Surtees (and in my opinion his misguided statement that there is no evidence to suggest heading a football contributes to the onset of dementia and).
E Watson says if there is any other sport to blame for this it is boxing, and also says correctly not once in my letter do I mention the damage caused by boxing, but incorrectly that I appear to believe heading a ball is more dangerous.
I can tell E Watson that I made no reference to boxing as I think Kenny was wrong to conflate the current debate over the link to dementia and football with the long-standing, well-documented health risks inherent in professional boxing.
Also I do not use the derogatory term 'punch drunk'- it's insulting to any ex-boxer suffering from brain damage.
A fighter gambles with death every time he enters the ring, as sadly illustrated by the long list of tragic fighters who paid the ultimate price on a canvas floor.
The enclosed photograph was taken at my niece's wedding when family friend Shay Nearey - former light welterweight boxing champion of the world - was a guest.
He is the young man in the middle flanked by my brother David on the left and yours truly on...
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