Letters / Getting to the truth of it
Every time the local Westminster or indeed Holyrood office pumps out a so-called ‘news release’ I will attempt to get to the truth of it.
Mr Carmichael asserts: ” When parties act in their own interest rather than the national interest, we all suffer for it.”
Well, touché! Our so-called representatives have to stop.
What exactly has he been doing over the past 20 years, especially and most particularly over 2010-15 when in government. He presided over one of the worst periods of poverty creation in the country’s history.
As much I will be the first to decry any attempt to kick the poorest whilst down, I will do it from a place of integrity and solidarity with those who have least.
James J Paton
Lerwick
Changes to fuel poverty payment will hit isles hard – Carmichael
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