I and many others are waiting to see whether Messrs Cameron and Clegg will carry out Gordon Brown’s proposals to introduce explicit sex education into primary schools, or whether they will use their better judgment to scrap the proposals, putting sex education for young children in parents’ hands.
I am also hoping they will stop the policy of turning secondary schools into centres where young girls are referred for abortions without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
This is not keeping teenage pregnancies under control. Apart from needlessly killing a little one before he or she is born and traumatising the young girl, the spread of sexually transmitted infections is reaching epidemic proportions.
I hope the new government will look at the evidence and act according to its moral judgment.
Sue Jamieson
Church Park Road
Pitsea
...It appears the main priorities in the general election were the success of the parties and the safeguarding of MPs’ positions. Little has been said about securing a unanimity in resolving the country’s problems.
A prime example is a claim that in a final bid to obtain a Lib/Lab agreement, Gordon Brown offered Vince Cable a compromise in respect of the Trident nuclear missile submarines. If Trident is necessary to our defence, it would appear Brown was prepared to compromise our security in order to retain power. If Trident is less necessary than claimed, it presumes incompetence in wasting huge sums of money.
W H Diment
Church Road
Laindon
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