SELBY & Ainsty Labour Party took part in a National Campaign Day on Saturday, November 25 with party members chatting with the public in both Selby and Tadcaster.

The campaign was to highlight the stark reality that living standards are actually falling under the Tories with working families expected to be £1,400 a year worse off.

This can be evidenced by over a 100 per cent increase in foodbank use in the Selby district, with many users being in low paid employment.

Real wages are actually lower than they were in 2010 with nearly six million people being paid less than the living wage and almost one million workers subjected to zero hours contracts.

It is a well-known but little broadcast fact that today as a country we are borrowing more money than every Labour government combined.

Households in Britain will be better off with Labour who will impose an energy price cap, another policy that the Tories are now looking to “borrow”.

Labour will ban zero hours contracts and the public sector pay cap will be abolished.

Labour plan to invest in our infrastructure and workers by making available highly skilled, highly paid jobs.

The UK’s economic growth forecast is the lowest for over 70 years, with growth predicted to fall below two per cent in every forecast year.

The facts are indisputable, austerity isn’t working.

David Leake, Chair, Selby & Ainsty Constituency Labour Party, Camblesforth, Selby

City centre is no place for dogs

LAST Saturday morning against my better judgement I ventured into York with my goddaughter Coleen in her pram.

Setting off mid-morning, I hoped to avoid the crowds.

However, the town was heaving and trying to cross the flow of people was not a job for the fainthearted.

I felt so sorry for people in wheelchairs, pushing kids or requiring walking sticks to walk.

I was there by choice visiting the town and Christmas Market, but for the life of me I just couldn’t understand the people trying to negotiate the crowds with one or two dogs with them.

D M Deamer, Penleys Grove Street, Monkgate, York

Make date for carols in De Grey Rooms

EVERY year about this time there used to be an event called Carols in Kirkgate held in Kirkgate street of the Castle Museum.

That ceased in 2012 and moved to the Merchant Adventurers Hall and became Carols in Fossgate.

For the last two years it has been performed in the De Grey Rooms and is now known as Christmas Traditions.

The format is much the same with the York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir assisted by the usual ladies choir and including some sketches and readings.

This year the event is taking place at the De Grey rooms at 7pm on Monday December 4, Tuesday, December 5, Wednesday, December 6 and Thursday, December 7.

Tickets, priced £13, are available from the Theatre Royal Box office on 01904 623568.

Terry Yates, Escrick, York

Keep donating for youngsters in 2018

EVERYONE at the Listening For Life Centre (the Ear Trust) is so grateful to readers of The Press for their generosity over the last year and previously.

You have raised substantial funds which have enabled the department to buy many necessary items for assessment and aftercare of Yorkshire’s deaf children having a cochlear implant.

May I ask that donations of unwanted jewellery, watches, any small unwanted antiques and so on continue in 2018, please?

This way more of these little ones can join their peers and live as normal a life as possible.

Mrs E Birch, Coombs Close, Sutton-on-the-Forest, York