I’ve just resigned as a volunteer with my local food bank. Until the Trussell Trust makes it clear to users, donors and volunteers that it is the previous and future Conservative governments that are solely to blame for the need for food banks then they are merely acting as a fig leaf for the government. I waited until the election results to act, but five more years of covering up Tory failures is five years too many.
Janice Gupta Gwilliam
Norton, North Yorkshire
• The election results came through on the Feast of Saint Lucy, patron saint of the blind; but for many Christian churches, the first set reading on what is commonly known as Gaudete (“rejoice”) Sunday includes the promise that “the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped”. Indeed, we shall see!
Fr Alec Mitchell
Holyhead, Anglesey
• At times like these it’s good to recall the graceful and reflective words of Dick Tuck’s concession speech when he lost a California senate race in 1966: “The people have spoken, the bastards.”
Alasdair Buchan
Brighton
• Should we now refer to Labour’s 2019 election manifesto as the second longest suicide note in history?
John Mills
Coventry
• Momentum Mori.
Peter Fellows
Bradford, West Yorkshire
• The lies have it, the lies have it.
Kevin Donovan
Birkenhead, Merseyside
• Bloody David Cameron!
Helen Evans
Ruthin, Denbighshire
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