‘Why I’d vote for Count Binface instead of Farage’

I WAS in Hartlepool at the count on the night Hartlepool people elected the football club mascot as their directly elected mayor.

The people who lived there, who voted for him, just wanted to stick two fingers up at the entire political establishment here in the UK.

I have watched Count Binface, Jon Harvey, debate at the Cambridge Union on the internet. He appears to be articulate and intelligent. I would vote for him instead of Zippy, if I was a resident of Clacton.

Nigel Boddy,

Witney Court,

Greencroft Close,

Darlington

Hope new Travellers’ policy leads to better outcomes

IT will be interesting to see if the new Traveller policy aimed at a “less confrontational” response when a fleet of trucks and caravans rocks up unannounced actually leads to a better outcome.

For the policy to work those Travellers being offered an alternative site would need to reciprocate with good behaviour and a proper clean up when leaving.

The restoration of Ethel Ward playing field cost taxpayers £2,500 and by all accounts was a most unpleasant task. No doubt those who had to deal with human faeces and animal carcasses found that experience most confrontational.

Matthew Laverack,

Lord Mayors Walk,

York

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