Mead Way flaws were so obvious

Oh no not again!!!

In response to the Swindon Advertiser reporting that Mead Way will have to be looked at again after car accidents on the junction.

I travel quite often over this junction.

Right from the very start of the new road structure, I could see that turning right over oncoming traffic would be a major hazard caused by traffic queuing in a very short space causing poor visibility.

I foresaw accidents waiting to happen.

Surely when planning this junction, planners could see the problem arising? If not, they should not be in the position of creating a new junction.

So now, wait for long delays, traffic diversion, businesses losing money, and - above all - more money used from the council’s budget to yet again get it right.

Can we have a reply from the council as to who is going to pay for this..?

Yours Faithfully,

Jackie Crook,

Corby Avenue,

Swindon

Tomato row retort doesn't make sense

I must admit I was quite amused at Des Morgans response to my letter on the vegetable shortage.

He seems to use two tactics to put his points forward:

Either statements with no facts that he thinks appeal to his audience or, as in this case, a lot of facts that are not relevant to the discussion in hand.

The main point I was making was that we are in a less competitive position to buy vegetables from Europe because of the devaluation of sterling after the Brexit vote.

I gave figures to back up this point.

Furthermore, the fact this currency devaluation happened immediately after the vote result shows no other factor was at play.

The reader only needs to look at places outside the EU to countries like Norway and Switzerland.

These countries are in the single market and are able to import easily also because they have strong currencies.

We are neither in the single market nor have a strong currency, which puts us in an extremely disadvantageous position.

Des then went on to give us some figures and detail about tomato production in Morocco.

The point I made was before Brexit, we did not need to any tomatoes from Morocco as we could afford to buy from the EU.

He also tries to convince the readers that somehow EU bureaucracy is to blame for the shortages we are having.

It is in reality more a case that red tape was introduced to import goods because we left the single market.

I would advise Des if he is going to answer my letters to answer the points I make and not go off on irrelevant rambles to justify the failed project that Brexit has turned out to be.

I live in hope he might, for once, admit he has made a mistake.

Regards,

Jonathan Sheldrake,

Priam House

Disagreement over Northern Ireland and the EU

Steve Rouse is without doubt a committed Europhile and would like nothing more than to see the will of the majority overturned and the UK return to the suffocating embrace of the political construct of the EU.

In his latest snipe, he suggests that Northern Ireland has unfettered access to the EU market.

What he fails to mention is that NI, a part of the UK, is still under EU law. That's not my opinion, it is what Maros Sefcovic told the EU Parliament.

Kind regards,

Des Morgan,

Caraway Drive