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Spalding-area readers and their views on Ukraine




Here are the letters from the Spalding Guardian of Thursday, March 10...

We’ve had our fair share of migrants

I was disgusted with the language used by (South Holland District Council leader) Gary Porter towards (MP) Sir Edward Leigh.

Furthermore, how dare Mr Porter presume to talk for everyone in South Holland.

Has he forgotten the fact that people in South Holland voted for Brexit because we had had enough of migrants coming to this area?

What planet does Mr Porter live on? Using the dirty trick of twisting Sir Edward Leigh’s words was disgusting.

Mr Porter is speaking for himself for some egotistical reason. Nobody is against helping people of Ukraine but South Holland has more than its fair share of migrants.

The old saying of “God made hat for himself first” should apply in this case.

I object to Mr Porter speaking for me and many of my friends who share my views in South Holland.

Milena Birkett

via email

John Elson's Spalding Guardian cartoon (55354760)
John Elson's Spalding Guardian cartoon (55354760)

Disgusting only 50 visas given out

We are currently in Poland after making a Humanitarian Aid Run to Lubaczow, close to the Polish/Ukrainian border.

We have seen first hand the fear and weariness of the Ukrainian women and children travelling and we have offered our services to help them on their journey through Europe on our way back to Calais.

We have met a couple who have lived in the UK for over 20 years, who are trying to rescue their elderly parents, aged 80 and 85, from Kyiv. The journey alone could be too much for them to survive the travel conditions and weather.

Then they are going to Berlin to try to obtain visas to allow their parents back to their home.

It’s disgusting when reading the BBC News Website on Monday that (prime minister) Boris Johnson confirmed that within the 12 days of war only 50 UK visas have been granted.

I am happy to have a face to face meeting with Sir John Hayes MP on our return later this week to discuss this in fuller detail and see how the normal person on the street can assist.

Dorothy King

Deeping St Nicholas

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: We pray for the people of Ukraine

2,000+ years ago a small group of disciples were gradually learning that their leader, a man called Jesus, was preparing for his death, at the hands of church leaders and others who could not control the deeds and actions of this man.

Their leader went off into the wilderness to pray and to prepare himself for what he knew must happen; his death on a cross.

The sort of death which was reserved for criminals and those anti-Roman, and not afraid to lead others into their schemes.

Today we remember those 40 days in the wilderness – the Christian church calls these 40 days “Lent”, and lasting from Ash Wednesday through until Good Friday in their church calendars.

Today Lent tends to be overshadowed by what’s happening to the people of Ukraine, as it would seem one powerful man, the president of Russia, had decided that Ukraine and its people belong to Russia, and so he makes all kinds of wild claims, to justify his actions.

While he continues, people are dying in tragic circumstances, and many have been forced to flee to other countries for their own safety.

So why link these two events? Because both are happening because of one man!

On one side there is Jesus, who is credited with having committed no sin, and prepared to die on a cruel cross for the sins of the whole world.

His death is still paying the price for our sin today.

On the other side is the Russian president, a very powerful man, whose ability to make all of his nation cow-tow and apparently agree with his every word, because his method of dealing with discontent is to imprison, re-educate and when all else fails, make his opponents disappear, never to be seen again.

We pray for the people of Ukraine, and all those people who have lost their lives, or are injured due to missiles, bombs, bullets, and the terrible threat of the unthinkable, previously unseen destruction upon the whole world. We think of families forced to flee, splitting families, perhaps forever.

We pray for the Russian president that he may recognise that what he is doing is evil and without any merit. We pray that he may come to know the Lord Jesus, who died on the cross, even for him.

Pastor Ross A Dean

Fleet Baptist Church



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