The Observer sale and the Guardian strike

A banner held by members of the National Union of Journalists at a picket outside the Guardian offices in King's Cross during this week’s 48-hour strike over the sale of the Observer. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

In your report (Journalists strike over proposed sale of Observer to Tortoise Media, 4 December), you quote the chair of the Scott Trust as saying “our goal has always been to do what is right for Guardian and Observer readers and staff”, but nowhere, in any public statement, has anyone from the Scott Trust ever explained why or how the sale of the Observer promotes this goal.
Pam Lunn
Kenilworth, Warwickshire

• Lots of wonderful photos of strikers and supporters on social media. My favourite is of Michael Rosen and Lemn Sissay hugging and beaming broadly. It would have been nice to see it in the Guardian today.
Jude Carr
London

• Why don’t you provide reasonable space for Guardian journalists to set out the rational case for not proceeding with the Observer plan, with its many promises?
Peter Brooker
West Wickham, London

• Sad to see no letters pages in the Guardian on Thursday and Friday. But sympathise with the reason why.
Ann Newell
Thame, Oxfordshire

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