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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Get MP On The Case Says Letts


Well known Daily Mail sketch writer Quinten Letts has encouraged Hereford United supporters to get local MP Jesse Norman more involved with the current plight at Edgar Street.

Letts lives in the shire and got in touch with Trevor Owens just before the end of this afternoon's Sport On Saturday programme.

"There's a political act now to this Hereford United plight because the people who are threatening our club are the Customs, the Inland Revenue, the Taxman," said Letts.

"And we in our city have an MP Jesse Norman who is a member of the House of Commons treasury select committee which is there to scrutinise among others the Inland Revenue.

"So I think that Hereford United fans need to get onto Jesse Norman who is a supporter of this club, he takes an advert out in the club programme.

"And they need to ask our MP to get onto the Inland Revenue and say what the blazes is going on.

"He may well have been (quietly exerting a little pressure behind the scenes) and he's also a big believer in that old David Cameron concept called the Big Society.

"Football clubs are a very important part of a Big Society because they give voice to the community spirit and that's what Hereford United does.

"And Hereford United fans need to make their political presence felt and they need to get onto the telephone to Jesse Norman and they need to write letters to the Inland Revenue complaining about the approach taken, the rather unyielding approach taken by the Inland Revenue to our club.

"The HMRC has not covered itself in glory when it comes to bigger corporations. Look at the way they handled people like Starbucks and Google and other big corporations. They have been very sympathetic to them. Cut them very good deals.

"And we would expect them to show the same sort of clemency that they've shown to those big profit making concerns, we want to see that same approach taken to less successful concerns."