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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Politics? No thanks, we’re Conservatives

Conservative party headquarters in Spalding, Lincolnshire
Conservative party headquarters in Spalding, Lincolnshire. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

The TaxPayers’ Alliance’s claim that it does not reveal its donors because many people do not like to talk about or broadcast their political views is reminiscent of the old Flanders and Swann line “We don’t have politics round here, we’re all Conservatives” (Rightwing lobby group campaigns to undermine UK four-day week, 7 July).
Geoff Reid
Bradford

• Wouldn’t it be grand if a Banksy were to suddenly appear celebrating Honest Bob Jenrick’s caring attitude towards all children – refugee and migrant kids excepted (Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children’s asylum centre, 7 July).
WA Gulam
Manchester

• My grandmother too had little time for weak ministers (The politics sketch, 5 July). She would say, in her broad Lancashire accent, “If brains were dynamite, he wouldn’t have enough to blow his cap off.”
Barbara France
Carnforth, Cumbria

• I can’t be sure what species they are, but the boating lake in Battersea Park, London, already has turtles (European pond turtle could return to British rivers and lakes, 7 July). I saw one on the day of your article.
Tim Scott
London

• Robots say they have no plans to steal jobs or rebel against humans (Report, 8 July). Yes, but they would say that wouldn’t they?
Hal Satterthwaite
London

• Our Father who art in heaven, Hollowed out be thy name … (Lord’s Prayer opening may be ‘problematic’, says archbishop, 7 July).
Peter Dewar
Bromley, London

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