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There is no magic tree

I READ Mr Cretchley’s letter with some relief, as it seems that Mr Corbyn does have a magic money tree hidden in some Labour stronghold that will pay for all the vote-winning proposals that were laid out in their manifesto!

Now I can sit back and wait for this tree of plenty to fruit and pay for all those young people that voted for him in the false hope of free tuition. We will be able to travel free on the new state-run railways and build hundreds of new hospitals while all around the world people will stare and wonder where all the money has come from.

At the age of 74 I can well remember when I bought my own house in 1966 and had to find a tenth of the value up front. My mortgage at that time was £18 a month and then Labour got into power and rapidly my mortgage rose from one weeks pay to two weeks pay at £34. The interest rate got to 18 per cent when Margaret Thatcher came into power and slowly and surely got things under control. Life was very hard then and I do not want my children to return to those days of strikes and low investment in industry.

We live in a capitalist society and trade is our life blood, which is one of the reasons we have to get the yoke of the EU off of our shoulders and the dead hand of bureaucracy out of our dwindling coffers.

Try and find anywhere in the world that socialism has produced affluence. Usually it falls into decline and that’s the way of the world.

BARRY E WOODHAM, Scotby Avenue, Old Town

Commission shows bias

The Charity Commission complains that the RSPCA is being political because it prosecuted the Heythrop Hunt, former Prime Minister David Cameron’s local hunt. What is political if anyone prevents deliberate cruelty to animals? Hopefully, we will soon have a new government who will do away with a politically motivated charity commission.

REVEREND H W JONES, Summerhouse Road, Wroughton

My ideas for a revamp

I HAVE some healthy ideas to revamp parts of Swindon that have become rather neglected. The Railway Village – a cathedral called “moods”, for the mechanics site – reforming, restructuring and restoring the building and having concerts.

Station Road – the disused archway buildings next to the entrance of the Designer centre to be food halls and restaurants and up-market bars. The Locarno – to be a new project “Vivaldi”, dress designs and evening attire with the help of the college and dress designers. Make it unique with a continental restaurant in the front. Used by JD church at weekends. Shops, shop fronts and business and homes to be redesigned by “Chop and Change.” New businesses developed to suit and expand the town. A new arena with shops and outlets around it with a Roman feel/ Bath Stone. Training centres for all to develop and recreate the town.

ANDREA LANE, Windswept, Swindon