There’s still hope yet

SPRING is just around the corner, and young men’s fancies turn to thoughts of standing on street corners having a drink and stuffing their empty bottles in people’s hedges and dropping empty take-away containers onto the pavement.

The excitement mounts as they discuss finding their old paint cans from last year, ready to spread their works of art on to road signs, under the struts of bridges (how do they get up there?) and of course the good old bus shelters, but not before they have etched their initials on the glass,

It is imperative that they carry something sharp to dig out the mortar on people’s walls and and that they have a bit of strength to loosen a few fences.

I have to say, though, I was very impressed when I was on the bus the other day and a group of young people offered their seats to elderly passengers. So there is light at the end of the tunnel.

CAROLE GLEED

Proud Close, Purton

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End of this silliness

JEFF Adams ‘sees no point in continuing this silliness’ (SA 20 Jan) and I suspect a lot of people, including myself will agree with him.

So let this be the end of his feeble utterances in which he accuses the Royal Family of being the wealthiest family in the world; the Queen as being a rogue tenant in Buckingham Palace, despite his equally absurd claim she owns it; and most of all that the Queen meddles in politics.

For the latter ‘fact’ Mr Adams depends upon ‘quotes’ which are another person’s opinion and not even ones he has gleaned for himself.

Sadly, even Jeff’s over the top allusion to a prisoner in the dock is absurd - particularly as he has simply failed to produce a shred of ‘real’ evidence to support any of his claims. He depends on ‘hearsay’ and should caveat everything he writes with the by-line - “in my opinion”

DES MORGAN

Caraway Drive, Swindon

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Economy in trouble

BEING a patriot it is my wish to support the British economy in every possible way. Unfortunately it is impossible for me to agree with the article by our two local MPs (20 Jan) that the British economy is doing well at the present time.

Britain’s growing trade deficit is one of the worst in the developed world. This is almost entirely due to the massive deficit that Britain runs while trading with the European Union.

In addition to the trade deficit the National Debt has doubled under the Tories during the last seven years to £1.7 trillion.

If the economy appears to be doing well it is all down to rapidly rising imports that are paid for with borrowed money.

The British manufacturing industry creates wealth for Britain when it exports goods made in this country.

It is not sustainable for any economy in the world to be based purely on rising imports and borrowing vast amounts of money.

STEVE HALDEN

Beaufort Green, Swindon