Spalding Guardian letters

We immediately got out of bed and looked out of the windows to see nothing.

No cameras sprung into action but our solar lights had been activated. So we went downstairs and checked the windows but nothing.

At 9am the next day I found my windscreen smashed by two heavy blows. I couldn’t believe it, or how little the Police are willing to assist!

No forensics, no coming to check I or my husband are okay ( I am disabled, my car is essential to me to my health as well as assisting with the care of my mum who has dementia).No, the evidence has pretty much been left for me to provide, ie dash cam footage, CCTV, and finding the actual tool used, which I took to the police.

I asked if they would check the surrounding area as to where the object was found for doorbells with cameras and CCTV in the area and the response was ‘probably not’.

So I ask when is a crime taken seriously?

I suffer with anxiety from previous incidents and this has up skittled me and my husband. I am not happy my vehicle has been damaged but glad it wasn’t the property or any of my family but even so a crime has still been committed.

The desk officer explained about lack of funding etc which I understand but I too am out of pocket.

Andrea Crawley

via email

Undermining democracy

Boris Johnson subjected all Conservative Party MPs to a ‘three line whip’ requiring them to vote for a motion that would have abolished current anti-corruption rules and procedures in Parliament and postponed the suspension of Owen Paterson for breaches of lobbying rules.

So how did our MP Sir John Hayes choose to vote on this motion? He did what he was told to do and voted in favour on grounds of Party.

Why does this matter? The answer is that, as Sir Winston Churchill said: “The first duty of a Member of Parliament is to do what he thinks in his faithful and disinterested judgement is right and necessary for the honour and safety of Great Britain.

“His second duty is to his constituents, of whom he is the representative but not the delegate. It is only in the third place that his duty to party organization or programme takes rank.”

Since Johnson was elected Prime Minister, some voters appear to have excused his incompetence, lies and behaviour in the interests of “Getting Brexit Done”.

But tearing-up Parliamentary standards has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with that. Instead, it fundamentally undermines Parliamentary democracy.

Our MP effectively voted last week to take our country back to the era prior to the Parliamentary Expenses Scandal in 2009. All for what purpose? Frankly, none. Within 24 hours, Johnson had done yet another U-turn, reversing the tearing-up of anti-corruption standards and postponement of a vote on Paterson’s 30-day exclusion.

Alan Meekings

Holbeach

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: You can rely on God

“For the Lord is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations!”

Wonderful words of promise from the book of Psalms.

God can be described in so many different ways, He is multi-dimensional, and the aspect of His love and enduring faithfulness towards each one of us, speaks to the very core of His character, illustrated repeatedly through the words of the Bible.

When we think of the word ‘faithfulness’, maybe we think of words like reliable, stronghold, dependability.

At Spalding Baptist Church recently, we have had the immense joy of celebrating 375 years of God’s faithfulness to his Church in the town – the church having started in 1646. The reason for that longevity being that the church is built on the rock that is God – who is timeless and never changes.

As we all go through life, we will be let down by those around us – our football teams (even Arsenal sometimes…), our workplaces, our media, our leaders. Even by those closest to us. But we can depend and rely on God’s awesome, perfect faithfulness which he exhibits for each one of us. He is infinitely dependable, and will help and guide through all circumstances.

Looking for someone to stand strong alongside you and never let you down? Seek out God and His eternal faithfulness.

Ben Clarke

Spalding Baptist Church