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23%

YES

77%

■■I agree with Gill Albrow who

said our country needs skilled

workers (Your Voice, Feb 27).

But does the answer lie with

training up our own?

Could it be possible to

‘stream’ schoolchildren

selecting them for suitable

professions in their last years

of education and train them

accordingly?

Bringing in skilled labour

from abroad has more

disadvantages than

advantages.

And after all, we left the EU

to be more independent.

Brian Stubbings, Cambridge

■■Forget plans to build on

flood plains (Mirror, Feb 28),

I fear Britain will eventually

disappear as it’s overpowered

by the weather and the sea.

You only have to look at the

erosion taking place on the

North Yorkshire and Norfolk

coasts to see how bad it is.

I live on the Furness

Peninsula in Cumbria and

we also suffer from coastal

erosion.

Britain is in dire straits as

the sea and flooding is

overtaking the land at a rapid

rate.

Wendy Maddox

Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria

■■I heard a speech given by

the late Barbara Castle on

the radio recently talking

about equal pay for women in

1969. The Labour Party need
      someone like her to lead
      them. She would have made a
      great Prime Minister.
      Jill Evans
      Praa Sands, Cornwall

Home-grow

skilled staff

How many of our daily pub

quiz brainteasers did you

manage to get right?

1. Coco Gauff


2. Sharks


3. Dev Patel


4. Felixstowe


5. Whig

Pub quiz answers

Yes. Privatisation was never

going to work and Chris

Grayling was told this over

and over again. The cost in

lives lost and financially has

been enormous.

Name supplied

Yes. The privatisation

of probation services

has been a total

disaster. Even the

Government admits it.

CrazyHippie

No. The

Government can’t

do everything at

once. This is on

their agenda.

pHilip parker

Yes. Can anyone name any

privatised organisation that was

once nationalised that actually

works in the interests of the people?

reduNderTHeBed

No. This is less about

government policies

and more about our soft

justice system that lets

out dangerous criminals

half way through

their sentences.

l z Caro Ter

Yes. How many more

people are going to

die before probation is

brought back into

public hands?

marCus19

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YOU R VOIC E Edited by FIONA PARKER

■ eaths from this outbreak so far D

are a long way short of those from

a typical flu season both in the UK

and globally.

In the UK, on average, there are

around 600 flu deaths a season and

in some years more than 10,000 –

worldwide there are 291,000-

646,000.

Currently, there are around 3,000

deaths globally from coronavirus,

mostly among the elderly or other-

wise vulnerable, so we’re nowhere

near even an average flu outbreak.

Obviously, this is tragic for those

affected and we need to take

sensible precautions, but we also

need to keep a sense of proportion.

Gordon Pilkington, Epsom, Surrey

■ When I had the Asian flu, I was

told to stay in bed at home. That’s

presumably how they would

handle the coronavirus if it did

threaten to overwhelm the NHS.

If a serious outbreak were to

happen, all it would need is some

sort of volunteer-based supervi-

sion and supply provision until a

vaccine is developed.

As this is a global

problem, there should

be co-operation on

medical research, and

the price of drugs

must not be set by greedy pharma-

ceutical companies.

John Shale, Wigan, Gtr Manchester

■ he Government’s advice to T

work from home is ridiculous.

What about construction and

factory workers or any job which

involves manual labour?

Many are self-employed or on

zero-hours contracts and cannot

afford to lose a day’s pay.

Mick Smith, Tilbury, Essex

■ With regard to the possible

spread of the coronavirus, consider

how many banknotes change

hands in the course of a day –

think supermarkets, airports,

betting shops etc – I fear the worst

is yet to come. God help us!

Alan Cragg, Preesall, Lancs

■ I remember the 1995 film

Outbreak in which a lethal virus –

for years safely contained in the

African rain forest – threatens

humankind.

I do worry that something

similar could be about to happen.

Shakespeare Mahechani

Edinburgh

■ Why has Boris Johnson’s Govern-

ment left it until now to hold the

first emergency meeting on

containing the spread of the coro-

navirus in the UK?

Maybe it’s because he was too

busy trying to repair the damage to

his reputation for not doing

enough for all the flood victims

who have lost their homes, many

of whom voted for him.

What a muddled response from

our hopeless Prime Minister to

what is turning into a global

epidemic.

Perhaps we should all expect the

worst because he – along with

Health Secretary Matt Hancock –

is completely out of his depth,

while our NHS is already over-

stretched and struggling. I wonder

how many who voted for him have

now washed their hands of him.

Reg Barrett, Southminster, Essex

■ Our PM has been more

concerned with his personal life

than the worldwide coronavirus

epidemic, which is fast becoming

a national emergency.

It is only by sheer luck that the

virus has so far not got out of hand

in this country.

Could it be that now the

stock market has been hit by

the spread of this disease our

lazy PM has been spurred to

action? That’s all he and

his millionaire cronies

care about.

For heaven’s sake, Boris,

let’s see a proper plan of

what the Government

intends to do to stop the

spread of this virus.

Grahame Kennedy

Wirral, Merseyside

As more new cases of coronavirus are

confirmed in Britain, taking the number of

those now infected to 40, Boris Johnson

has chaired his first COBRA meeting on

the disease. More than 3,000 people have

died from the virus around the world,

including 41 in northern Italy. You say...

Get set for virus

..but don’t panic

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t He BIG QuestioN

Every day we’ll be asking your opinion on

one of Britain’s big talking points. You can

have your say and vote at mirror.co.uk

Comedian

Seann

Walsh

shares a

secret...

@seannwalsh – I’m going to

tell you all something that

I’ve never told anyone

before and is true. I’m 34

and I’ve never not put on my

rucksack without imagining

I’m a Ghostbuster.

Last week’s winner

Next week’s photo shows rock legend Jon Bon Jovi

giving Prince Harry some singing tips at the Abbey

Road studios in London, where they duetted on a

charity song for the Invictus Games Foundation.

Email or send your captions to the address below.

For an

encore I’m

doing Tears

For Fears’

Everybody

Wants To

Rule The

World

Well done to Howard Lewis from Pentre, Mid

Glamorgan for this funny caption to last week’s photo

of Tyson Fury singing American Pie to his wife Paris in

Las Vegas after being crowned world heavyweight

champion for the second time.

To have your say, go to mirror.co.uk

Give a gong to

first class Ade

What a fine actor Adrian

Edmondson is – from the loutish

Vyvyan in Eighties alternative

comedy series The Young Ones to

the ill-fated Daniel Cook in EastEnders,

he always fits the part. I can see him

getting a top award very soon,

and rightly so.

Chris Cowton

Scarborough

VYVACITY In

Young Ones

and Daniel in

Albert Square

t He BIG issue

Figures revealed 309 people have beeen

murdered by monitored offenders since

the probation service was part-privatised

in 2014. It’s due to be brought back into

the public sector in December.

Should the probation

service be under

government control?