I FEEL that our local MP has lost the plot completely. He must have been wearing his social worker's hat when he wrote the letter that appeared lat week, (Citizen: May 13).
Possibly having been brainwashed by political correctness, he now has to read a double meaning into everything written, spoken or gestured.
Stan Henig and his pals lost their seat not because of ethnic background or religion, but because of their arrogant disregard for the punters they were supposed to represent. This was pointed out by Dawson's fellow MP Geraldine Smith who said the local Labour party will now have to listen to the public.
More people now know that Henig is Jewish than before he wrote his letter. Had Henig and Dawson, instead of reading the thoughts of Chairman Blair, read the works of the Bard Robert Burns, they would have found in "To a Louse":
O wad some power the giftie ge us
To see ourselves as others see us
It wad frae mony a blunder free us
And foolish notion.
D Gillespie
Lancaster
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