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Friend or foe?

I spent Friday in London with 150,000 young and old like-minded people, who felt it was worth making the effort on the streets to support values of statesmanship, morality, ethics and decency. It was a real rainbow coalition, from anti racists who argued Trump is a standard bearer for every racist bigot worldwide, to feminists to serial dissenters.

My motivation was Trump’s attitude to climate (200 Japanese died this weekend in flash floods) and his unnecessary relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem, against all international advice, resisted by prior Presidents, kicking the two state solution into the long grass, and leading directly to the deaths of 100 young Palestinians.

Little did I think as I carried my Palestinian flag across Oxford Street that Trump, at that moment, would be using his visit to pour petrol on the flames of our predicament.

Now unlike Des Morgan, Bill Williams et al, I was always convinced Brexit would play out disastrously, especially when the population began to wake up to real facts and what’s really at stake.

Trump is a man who treats supposed allies with discourtesy bordering on contempt, a man who couldn’t wait to badmouth the German Chancellor before he even set foot on the tarmac. His first act here was to suggest Boris Johnson would make a great Prime Minister (really?) and then to tell Theresa May that unless we are prepared to slash and burn standards and protocols developed and agreed back as far the 1980s, we could forget any plan for a US trade deal.

The delicious irony is that the Tories attack Corbyn, of whom I’m no particular fan, for being against NATO and in favour of anti-western dictatorial regimes, yet Trump is a clear danger to NATO and has never said a bad word against Putin, reserving his anger and criticism instead for America’s traditional friends and allies.

The Brexiteers only viable lifeline having turned their backs on decades of trade connectivity in Europe, was to become ‘the 51st state of the union’. Alarmingly they witnessed an America First protectionist who no more believes in free trade than he believes in climate science.

John Stooke, Haydon End, Swindon

A waste of space

AS and when the Queen passes away, step forward his pampered royal highness Prince Charles!

His Highness (we are his Lowness, remember) immediately embarks on a whistle-stop tour of Scotland and Wales to emphasize his place in the bosom of his kingdom.

His beloved subjects will line every city and town, and railway bridges as his train passes by, waving adoringly and throwing him kisses, flowers, and chanting “we love you, Charles.”

Street parties will line every street, mosques and churches will be bursting at the seams as his loyal subjects rejoice God’s appointment of Charles at his coronation.

That’s what he’d love to witness.

The Prince doesn’t like questions on truth, unless they show him in a flattering light.

Prince Charles is a complete waste of space. Most days, he is to be found checking his popularity ratings on YOUGOV polls, arranging £80,000 round trips, courtesy of taxpayers, on private jets and moaning that everyone prefers his sons more than him.

Luckily for us his mother is still around.

Jeff Adams, Bloomsbury, Swindon

Hardly love all

We see men play over six hours in a Wimbledon semi-final. We see the women’s final finished in just over an hour. This is why it is crushingly obvious that women players do not deserve the same prize money under any circumstances.

Maybe we should separate men’s and women’s tennis championships the way football and rugby do and see how they do. Women tennis players have always played much shorter games. If this anti-male feeling continues then we should either let the men join the women’s tour or simply make Wimbledon a single prize, single sex title with both sexes contesting against each other equally. Let’s go girls.

Roger Lack, North Swindon

No hole in roof

IF Dan Bell was a customer of Sainsbury’s at Stratton he has done them no favours.

There was no hole in the roof with rain coming through, the downpour caused the water to pour through the shop door and was only at floor level. The store reopened at 8pm after the mopping up.

Margaret Hayes, South Marston