Despair at Government's breaking of pledges

This letter appears in today's Derby Telegraph:

Despair at Government's breaking of pledges

I despair for our country. This wretched and unelected Coalition Government has broken almost every election manifesto pledge, from the referendum on Europe, crime, tuition fees, immigration and on and on.

And yet it doggedly pursues policies it knows the majority of citizens do not want and did not vote for: marriages in church for gays, ludicrous wind turbines and its pernicious undermining of the Christian faith.

The latest example of this is that some junior Lib-Dem minister has ordered lawyers to oppose the rights of Christian workers to wear the cross at work.

While Christians are banned from displaying the symbol of their faith, this coalition, spurred on doubt Nick Clegg and his bunch of interfering amateurs, grovels to appease minority faiths.

They have criticised various regimes worldwide for not allowing their citizens free speech, yet, with breathtaking hypocrisy, they undermine freedom of speech in this country and brand those who speak out as bigots and racists.

Clegg and Co have far too much influence for their meagre numbers and slippery Cameron goes along with their perverse agenda.

His so-called commitment to equality does not, it seems, extend to Christians. It is grotesque.

John Orgill

Littleover