Letter from Greg Dunningham (From Swindon Advertiser)

Letter from Greg Dunningham

2:41pm Monday 8th February 2010 in

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CAN you help me? On one hand we seem to have a group of academics telling us we are set to ruin the planet by over use of natural resources and 'The End is Nigh'. The older members of our population are increasing and there are fewer people to pay/help fund this change and yet scientists are happy to tell us we now have a pill which will ensure we live to more than 100! Absence of joined up thinking?

I suppose I am more worried about the possibilities of having to live in a cashless society which is run and controlled by champagne quaffing morons in London who 'cannot possibly live on less than £250,000 a year while you and I struggle to pay the heating bill and feed ourselves and the even older relatives the Government will force us to live with us (even if they aren't our own as there are too many to go round).

The prospect of living in Tescoshire, with no chance to wear your pyjamas when shopping at 2am on Christmas morning, no Swindon Advertiser on your mat because it is all online (which means most of my recycling box will be empty), virtual tours only, so no flights or coach travel, (courtesy of the powers that be to ensure our carbon footprint does not mess up the repatriation of the woolly rhinoceros to Wootton Bassett, the Giant Sloth to Reading and the Sabretooth Tiger in Moredon - should cause some panic among the canine population - in line with EU directives to re-establish indigenous species). And can you imagine being alive when they decide to fill in the recently dug canal and replace it with a giant skate board park and excavate the football pitch in County Road from under the foundations of the soft fruit section of Tescohill to establish a museum to the former wonders of Swindon?

No I think I will continue to take the medication I am on (well until they manage to get that white jacket with all the straps back on me!!!).

GREG DUNNINGHAM Marlborough Road Old Town Swindon