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Blame Tories’ policy

I’D LIKE to respond to a couple of points made by David Collins in his letter (All these leftie loonies) Sep 9.

He starts by saying Mrs May has given rise to a left wing surge by all the leftie loonies.

Whom are you referring to Mr Collins? Owen Smith, Labour Leadership Candidate has spoken of wanting another EU referendum, who are the others in the Labour Party and the wider Labour movement you claim are incessantly going for a second referendum?

The country’s best selling left wing papers, the Morning Star and the Socialist Worker, both urged its leadership to vote leave.

He then writes that the junior doctors strike is called in order to cause chaos and disruption to patients.

It’s the Tories’ policy of austerity, austerity and more austerity that has seen hospitals close, A&E units close and operations cancelled that has caused chaos and disruption to patients and not the junior doctors going on strike.

Mr Collins says that socialism doesn’t work. No political system is perfect but what kind of political system do we live in which sees 85 of the world’s richest people own the same wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion?

What was the system Mr Collins that brought the world to financial collapse less than a decade ago?

MARTIN WEBB

Swindon Road, Old Town, Swindon

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It is not animals’ fault

Ref Gill Harris’ column on September 8, Who’s There For Terry?

The rescuers you criticised for swooping in to rescue the cat Bert have found a council flat for Terry – he moves in next week.

It makes me cross when you, Gill and Barrie Hudson and a lot of people assume, wrongly, that if you help animals you don’t care about people.

I find it unfair to be judged like this. Compassion, as the great Albert Schweitzer said, should be given to both. I, and many friends, help people and animals in various ways. It is not the animals’ fault that they need help but the fault of the people who neglect, abandon and ill-treat them.

Lord Shaftesbury, who helped children and William Wilberforce, who helped slaves, were founder members of the RSPCA.

Life for people and animals has been made much worse with the cruel government cuts and Bedroom Tax. More people are relying on foodbanks and animal cruelty is up a lot.

So, Gill, what do you do for the homeless?

S GILES

Bodiam Drive, Toothill, Swindon

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No drainage system

I HAVE just seen the paving outside Iceland in Swindon, it looks very nice. but there is a slope from Iceland to the Brunel Centre and, from what I could see, no drainage system.

So what smart Alec designed the layout and when we get heavy rain where is the water going to go? Into the Brunel Centre?

I hope not, because there are going to be a few red faces if that’s the case.

L TOWNSEND

Rodbourne, Swindon