Best wishes to splendid emergency services Don’t forget role in the biggest crisis

AS we go towards the New Year, my wife and I send our best wishes to our splendid emergency services in Coventry.

In recent years, we have had reason to be very grateful to our fine police, fire and rescue service, and ambulance service. We also greatly admire the hard-working Accident and Emergency staff at University Hospital.

We shall never forget the time when I needed urgent help and the ambulance service first responders, based at Canley Fire Station, arrived before my wife had even finished the 999 call.

We live in the south of the city and I was receiving treatment in A and E in Walsgrave within an hour of her picking up the telephone. We hope that the public will remember with gratitude these brave and dedicated men and women who protect us night and day.

Coun David Skinner (Conservative) Westwood Ward Coventry to deliberately plunge the country into financial chaos? Let’s remember that we pay the EU £13 billion a year, not the other way round.

Andy McDonald thought Leave voters were misguided into thinking Britain has a greater standing in the world. Well I seem to remember the Remain side saying we would have a much smaller voice in world affairs if we left the EU.

That’s fine, let’s keep our opinions to ourselves and stop sticking our noses into the affairs of other countries. We have plenty of problems of our own to sort out without telling other countries how they should conduct their affairs.

All to often over the years many British soldiers have lost their lives and billions of pounds wasted fighting conflicts in foreign lands. R Goodfellow Cheylesmore Covenry THERE was a lot of love for George Osborne after his rousing speech in the Commons about Syria or rather a lot of contrasting with another Bullingdon buffoon who’s now Foreign Secretary who revised his views on the sacked Chancellor.

But before anyone reminisces too hard, let me remind you of Osborne’s role in the biggest crisis currently facing Britain’s social care. Back in 2010 Labour proposed putting a £20,000 cap on care costs, which would be reclaimed from everyone’s estate after they died, if they had it.

This got cross-party agreement until the Tory’s general election strategist Osborne sanctioned posters which said “Now Gordon Wants £20,000 When You Die, Don’t Vote For Labour’s New Death Tax”.

He knew he was scuppering a deal that would have given ageing people re-assurance that they would not have to sell their family home. Andy McDonald Tile Hill Coventry