YEP Letters: October 19

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Undated BBC handout photo of Ed Balls with dance partner Katya Jones during a dress rehearsal for tonight's edition of the BBC1 show, Strictly Come Dancing. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Saturday October 15, 2016. See PA story SHOWBIZ Strictly. Photo credit should read: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire

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Here are a selection of your letters covering topics as diverse as seeking shelter from the Germans in the second world war and jobs on the buses.

Ed Balls - could you see him dancing to James Brown?

Richard Kimble, Hawksworth

So Ed Balls, a former local MP has beaten 3 dancers considerably better than him without even being placed in a “dance-off”?

Is this all Labour Party supporters paying the country back for voting in Cameron anc Osborne?

Or is it Yorkshire people inflicting pain on the country for the same reason by forcing us to watch him lumbering around in a suit of armour like an elephant on Tramadol?

Or perhaps his former constituents enjoying making him look a complete fool? The only judge who has given the feedback he deserves is Monsieur Craig Revel Horwood whose “2” grade last Saturday was actually very generous . . for him. Whatever, get rid.

Or we may get him dancing to a James Brown number . . . please please please

Trump is no rival to our own British Boris!

Dr Glyn Powell, by email

It is my view that the US presidential candidate Donald Trump has only one serious rival, to being the most ridiculous politician in the world. That rival is the ludicrous UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, who has shown himself to be utterly clueless on leaving the European Union (EU).

Indeed one could be forgiven for believing that he secretly wishes Britain to remain in the EU. As his words and actions have been totally unhelpful in Britain leaving the EU. The answer to which is simple - invoke Article 50 and withdraw from the EU’s single market. Giving Britain control of its borders and freedom to negotiate trade deals with the rest of the world!

Of even more concern is Boris Johnson’s views on Syria, as any UK military involvement on the side of the jihadi rebels risks confrontation with Russia - a confrontation that could rapidly escalate into a world war.

It is the jihadi Islamists and not Russia or Assad who pose a threat to Europe. It is the Jihadi Islamists and their financial and weapons backers, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who are holding 250,000 civilians in eastern Aleppo hostage. Russia and the Syrian military are right to cleanse eastern Aleppo of the Jihadi Islamists. This will unfortunately result in civilian casualties but it is a price worth paying.

Compassion restores faith