Daily Express - 30.07.2019

40 Daily Express Tuesday, July 30, 2019

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38 years ago (1981)

We celebrated the marriage

of Prince Charles and Lady

Diana Spencer showing the

newlyweds sharing a tender

moment on Buckingham

Palace balcony. Britons

enjoyed a national holiday

and crowds of 600,000 lined

the capital’s streets to watch

the royal procession, while

the global TV audience was

estimated at 750 million.

70 years ago (1949)

The British warship HMS

Amethyst escaped down

China’s Yangtze River

under the cover of

darkness after a three

month stand-off with

Chinese communists.

On April 20, the frigate had

been on her way from

Shanghai to Nanking when

she was fired on by the

People’s Liberation Army

triggering what became

known as the Amethyst

Incident.

53 years ago (1966)

England beat Germany 4-2 at

Wembley to clinch the World

Cup for the first time since the

competition began in 1930.

The Queen and Prince Philip

were among the 93,000

spectators who watched

striker Geoff Hurst score the

first hat-trick in a World Cup

final.

TODAY: Tuesday

July 30, 2019

ON THIS DAY

BIRTHDAYS

TODAY’S GIGGLE

How do you get a squirrel to

like you? Act like a nut!

Terminator star

Arnold

Schwarzen-

egger is 72.

He served two

terms as

Governor of

California.

Film-maker

Christopher

Nolan is 49.

He directed

blockbusters

Dunkirk and

Interstellar.

Friends star

Lisa Kudrow

is 56. She also

works behind

the camera.

Million Dollar

Baby actress

Hilary Swank

is 45. She

supports

animal rights.

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Letter of the day

Free-trade deal with US

should not be at any price

THE prospect of a free-trade
agreement with the US holds many
pluses for the UK but we should
ensure there is no appeasement by
our government resulting in lower
standards in food production and
animal welfare.
By their own actions it would
seem some US food products will
be of questionable quality, for
example the washing of chickens in
chlorine which we’re told is
necessary due to poor hygiene
standards of some producers.
We can also assume genetically
modified organisms will figure too.
If we have to accept this to secure
any kind of trade deal, I for one
have no wish to eat them. We must
disclose all details in the labelling.
Ron Clark,
Looe, Cornwall

Buccaneering Boris is

beginning to grow on me

AS someone who has never voted
Conservative and have never rated
Boris Johnson very highly as a
politician, I have to say that I am
somewhat surprised I have begun to
feel some degree of confidence in
his attitude towards securing Brexit.
It is only by keeping no-deal on
the table that the EU could ever
treat our desire to leave seriously.
Boris knows that, as do the
Remainers who have known all
along that without this bargaining
chip the EU held all the cards and
that we would not leave.
With the ball now in our court we
are at last negotiating on a level
playing field and a the EU are the
side with most to lose, we can
expect to see them running to us to
secure a deal to benefit both sides.
Terry Durrance,
Southport, Merseyside

After Brexit’s sorted, PM

should set about Labour

BORIS Johnson may appear to be
flamboyant, bizarre and even
unorthodox at times.
What he really is however, is
charged with a new vigour that has
not been since Margaret Thatcher.
He is reinvigorating a nation that
has seen democracy cast aside like
an old rag.
Whatever his style many
thousands who voted Leave from
Labour and other parties will join
him. Remainers who understand
how the EU has treated the UK
with nothing but disdain will also
back his cause.
After we leave Boris can then
complete the second part of his
mission and destroy the loser
Labour Marxists from the
opposition front benches.
Geoff Fawcett,
Workington, Cumbria

Ungrateful Macron will be

closing French farms down

PERHAPS Emmanuel Macron can
let French farmers and wine growers
know that, as part of France’s
no-deal preparation, its president
has threatened no trade if our
£39billion is not paid to the EU.
Does that mean that all French
wine and cheese will not be sold in
the UK? How many of those

AS Prime Minister, Theresa May did all she

could to get the best Brexit deal for the EU,

not us. She went thinking we were too daft to

realise what she was doing to us.

Now Boris Johnson is at the helm, I am

beginning to believe we actually will leave the

EU (“Boris beefs up no-deal Brexit plans”,

July 29).

The message now is that we are in charge,

we are divorcing the EU and we call the shots.

The EU must give major concessions to us,

otherwise we go and the EU doesn’t get a

single euro. Take it or leave it.

I believe Boris is the man who can be our

modern-day Churchill and help guide the

good ship Britannia into calmer waters.

Ashley Smith,

March, Cambs

businesses will be bankrupt within

12 months?

What an ungrateful nation the

French will be if they allow such a

threat is carried out. Fortunately, in

Boris we have a leader who will

give Macron a Chruchillian two-

finger salute. How dare a loyal and

supportive friend of France be

threatened in such a manner.

When I listened to our new Prime

Minister’s opening statement to the

Commons, for the first time in a

long time it was emotional to hear a

UK leader speaking up for our

country and its values

The doom-mongers should get on

board or get out of Boris’s way. He

may not achieve half of what he is

trying to do but it is heartwarming

to believe in a better future and to

be rid of the recent negativity.

Kevin Wight,

Reigate, Surrey

Hong Kong protest stirred

up by keyboard anarchists

LITTLE more than 22 years ago,

Hong Kong was handed back to the

Chinese and today we now have

people demonstrating illegally in

the former British colony.

Most demonstrators were either

not born or not of school age

in 1997. I am not a supporter of

the Chinese system but let’s

not pretend that young people are

demonstrating for democracy. This is

yet another social media-led

campaign by anarchists to get their

way via violence and civil

disobedience.

If the same demonstrations took

place in London it would rightly be

condemned by all sides.

Patrick Higgins,

Rainham, Kent

I wonder what planet Mr

Forsyth is living on?

I AM astounded by your columnist

Frederick Forsyth’s comments on

going to the Moon; it being a

complete waste of effort and money

(“A Moon landing costs billions and

is pointless”, July 26).

The Moon is littered with mineral

resources essential to our modern

world and which are becoming rarer

by the day on Earth.

Why do you think the Chinese,

along with others, are trying to get

there? There is silver, gold, lithium

and platinum there and all are

essential in modern electronics.

Kelvin Wilcocks,

Ashburton, Devon

Cameras are a prime part

of swelling council coffers

SO residents are now asking for

cameras to be installed in a bid to

help identify criminals and help

keep them safe. Surely they must

realise that the councils are much

too busy installing cameras to keep

us out of bus lanes, catch us doing a

mile over the speed limit and spot

us parking illegally so that they can

fine us to swell their coffers.

Ann Johnston,

London

If you act like a victim

you’ll be treated like one

FIRSTLY I’m 74. I am not now, nor

ever will be invisible. Your

“shocking expose” of how we treat

the elderly is patronising.

A 26-year-old cannot walk in the

shoes of someone 50 years older.

Act like a helpless victim and you

will become one. Had she not worn

the make-up and the garb but

behaved in the same way, she would

not have fared well either.

In any crowded place there are

always rude people and they don’t

just single out the elderly.

People will help if you have the

right attitude. My sister in law is 81,

walks with a stick and can charm

the birds from the trees.

She simply smiles disarmingly

looking the person in the eye and

says: “I’m deaf.” Folk scuttle to

help.

Valerie Walker,

Lincoln

May tried to

pull the wool

over our eyes

GOODBYE: Mrs May with EU bigwig Jean-Claude Juncker

WHILE I

commend the

young man for

his achievement, sadly I

believe he is the

exception to the rule

(“British gamer, 15,

wins a £1m Fortnite

fortune after mum bins

Xbox” July 29).

Eight hours a day is

an alarming amount of

time for a young person

to be locked into a

fantasy world.

Vital life practices

such as communicating

and interacting in

person as well as

spending time outdoors

are lost.

Prince Harry is right

to say gaming drains the

minds of the young.

Barry Collins,

Leicester

I’M really

pleased that

young Jaden

Ashman has proved

both his mother and

Prince Harry wrong by

bagging a whopping

£900,000 thanks to his

computer gaming skills.

That amount of

money is life-changing

and for it to be on offer

in the first place for what

seems such a trivial

pursuit shows firstly how

quickly the world is

moving on and secondly

how us old fuddy-

duddys need to get up to

speed with it.

The world of the

future belongs to the

Jadens and I hope he

spends his money wisely.

Alan Jarvis,

Stoke-on-Trent

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