Dear Editor
The true face of ‘Compassionate Con-servatism’ is visible at last. Messrs Cameron and Osborne have now threatened the pensioners and the sick with financial penalties unless they vote to ‘Remain’ in the EU. I think it’s time we got rid of those two politicians as well as the EU. I am even more horrified that the Church of England has allied itself to this policy. The Archbishop, many senior clergy and, nearer home, the Bishop of Durham have all urged us to vote ‘remain’.
I think they would better serve the cause of the Church by sorting out its own problems to encourage greater attendance in their churches than to discredit itself by meddling in politics, especially allying themselves to such unchristian threats.
Frank Haylett