Daily Mail, Thursday, August 8, 2019 Page 63DEBATE
HOW long before Paul Hollywood’s former
girlfriend appears on a TV reality show? Not
The Great British Bake Off, of course!
KATIE BENNETT, Fowey, Cornwall.
TRADES unions should pay compensation to
the public for inconvenience caused by strikes.
WILLIAM OLDFIELD, Minehead, Somerset.
I AGREE with racing driver Max Verstappen:
give all F1 drivers a Mercedes and then see
how good Lewis Hamilton really is.
JOHN McBAIN, Witney, Oxon.
THE BBC should use the money from making
pensioners pay for a TV licence to create a
dedicated sports channel. This would relieve
the main channels of boring coverage.
KEITH THOMPSON, Warington, Cheshire.
A BETTER use of ruthless hospital car parking
firms would be putting them in charge of
recouping the costs of health tourism.
KEITH TURNELL, Market Rasen, Lincs.
IN WHAT will be a difficult transition after
Brexit, we should back our manufacturers,
farmers and fishermen and buy British (Letters).
L. WYATT, Littlehampton, W. Sussex.
I WOULD buy British except that we don’t
make consumer products any more.
A. CORBETT, Derby.
INSTEAD of Land Of Hope And Glory, when we
leave the EU, we should play The Great Escape.
DANA PERRIN, Ticehurst, E. Sussex.
THOSE at Brighton Pride did not have much
pride in the town, judging by the litter left.
MICHAEL HARRIS, Bletchingley, Surrey.÷ ÷ ÷ ÷ ÷ ÷ ÷ ÷ ÷Straight to the
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101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX. Tel: 01892 525273. e-mail: [email protected]Will HS2 cut down on overcrowded trains?
READER Christopher Frances
from Solihull says we need HS2
because the rush hour trains are so
full (Letters).
How ridiculous! All that is needed
are more carriages. This would
mean it would be easier to get on
and off the train, making the journey
more comfortable, quicker and
efficient. It would also be a lot
cheaper than HS2.
MARGARET ROWELL, Leeds.
HS2 will not reduce the number of
travellers; it will just make the
journey half an hour quicker.
How would getting to London orBirmingham 30 minutes faster
stimulate business and enhance
the lives of everyone?
Adding more coaches to existing
trains is a far better solution than
spending £80 billion and
disrupting the lives of thousands of
people, as well as the loss of so
many acres of countryside.
IAN TAYLOR, Barlborough, Derbys.
IF TRAINS between London and
Birmingham are full, why not just
run them more frequently?
We don’t need to build an expensive
new line, destroying homes and
countryside in the process. Just usesome of the money to pay for more
rolling stock and staff.
ADEYEMI BANJO, London SE15.
HS2 will not carry freight and so
will not, contrary to what many
people think, reduce the number
of lorries on our roads.
It will destroy homes, agricultural
and environmentally sensitive
land, shattering people’s lives,
hopes and dreams.
This thundering great white
elephant will devastate everything
in its path.
JANET ORMOND, Banbury, Oxon.M&S’s menswear is a sea of
washed-out black, blue and
beige, which is dull, dull, dull!
A. STILL, Ilford, Essex.What a drama!
I AM surprised at Anna Friel’s
complaint that there are not
enough great female roles.
In the past ten years, the
pendulum has swung from
male-dominated TV thrillers
to dramas with strong lead
roles for women, and female-
dominated storylines.
What makes Ms Friel’s view
all the more nonsensical is that
with the drama Marcella and
the new series Deep Water, she
has benefited from this focus
on female-led drama.
DAVID HALLAS,
Filey, N. Yorks.Population peril
PRINCE HARRy is right to
emphasise the need to limit
family size to two children.
We are living longer and areexceeding the planet’s ability
to cope with so many humans.
Arguing we all should
embrace veganism is facile.
There is nothing green about
importing vegetables from
Peru or Kenya that have been
flown in on a jumbo jet.
All countries need to review
population numbers in
relation to resources — food,
water, clean energy — within
their own country.
The UK has insufficient
resources and is producing
too many emissions. Thefewer people, the fewer carbon
footprints. The time to
encourage a lower population
is now.
C. NEIL, Failand, Somerset.Seconds Cummings
AS THE controversial adviser
Dominic Cummings makes his
mark in No 10, I am reminded
of my time at Durham School
where I was head chef and he
was a pupil.
He stormed into my office
claiming my food was garbageand he wouldn’t serve it to his
dog. ‘I’m complaining to the
head,’ he told me.
Two days later, the head came
into my office. ‘Don’t worry
about Master Cummings,’ he
said. ‘I invited his parents for
lunch. They were served the
same food as the pupils and
could not find fault.’
I hope the food at No 10 is to
Dominic’s satisfaction:
Scottish smoked salmon and
Aberdeen Angus fillet steak,
minus the French fries.
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and telephone number.Boris must listen
to Barbara’s plea
HAVING cared for a husband with
Alzheimer’s disease, may I say how
good it is to see that Dame Barbara
Windsor and her husband, Scott
Mitchell, are ambassadors for the
Alzheimer’s Society.
She signed a letter to Boris Johnson
requesting essential support for those
with the illness and their carers.
Barbara and Scott are a shining
example that life is not over when you
are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and
that you can still enjoy yourself.
However, they have highlighted it is a
nightmare without the right support
from healthcare agencies — above all,
having the endless worry over whether
you will be able to afford care home
fees without having to sell your home.
Thank you, Barbara, for having the
courage to take part in such an
important campaign.
BARBARA DOW,
Amble, Northumberland.
DAME BARBARA WINDSoR, who is
living with the devastating
consequences of Alzheimer’s, has
rightly urged the Prime Minister to
act because the social care system is
unfair and needs an urgent overhaul.
Every aspect of care, education and
wellness of the mind has been
neglected in this country for far too
long. We have been forced to hand
over our much-needed money to
others before our own, and it’s this
that really annoys me about the
Remain/Project Fear brigade.
For decades, we have allowed ourfishing industry to be decimated by
Brussels and been forced to buy cheap
essentials such as steel — when ours
used to be the best in the world —
putting thousands out of work.
If we could also sort out the disgrace
of privatisation, red tape and money-
grabbing companies, then we could
take our money back for our sick anddying, so future Barbara Windsors will
not have to suffer indignity.
ASHLEY SMITH, March, Cambs.
I HATE to see animals caged, but that
is what I have condemned my husband
to. over the past five years he has gone
gradually downhill with dementia. A
year ago, I had to accept I could not
manage him at home any longer and
he is now in a care home 35 miles away.
He is so well looked after he could go
on for years, not knowing where he is
or recognising his family. Due to his
illness, there was no power of attorney
and it is taking over a year to be
granted a deputyship. our house is
solely in his name. By the time the
financial contribution to my husband’s
care has been paid, there is not enough
left to pay the bills, maintain the house
and garden, and pay for petrol.
My own savings are dwindling and
there will be nothing left to pay for my
care if it becomes necessary.
My husband is totally lost, knows
no one, can’t converse and does not
know night from day. Just like an
animal in a cage, he prowls around
constantly. Is it cruel to keep a person
in this state? I’m sure there will be
those who condemn me when I say I
wholeheartedly agree with euthanasia.
From a purely financial point of view,
it would save the NHS and the
Government an enormous amount of
money in care fees. The man I have
loved for 50 years has gone — he is just
a walking shell.
ROS RIDLEY, King’s Lynn, Norfolk.Picture: ALZHEIMER’S SOCIETY/RUCKAS PICTURES
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