We can’t provide health service ‘on the cheap’
WHEN I was young I needed our emergency services like some of us do from time to time. I’m thankful that a fully funded service was available and I was saved from an early death.
What is uncertain is when we’ll need these services, but most will need help at some point. It is without question that a fully funded support system has to be in place for when it is required.
We can’t provide this service on the cheap. If we don’t all have the same starting point, humanity is not an equal race.
To restore equality, find the box to get cross with. In this instance, boxing is for the human race! Jock Brownlee Wood End
‘Begging letters’ are best ignored
FOR the last three weeks or so, my wife and l have been receiving begging letters. They always follow the same theme and try to paint a picture of disaster. The sender tries to make out all will be wonderful if we take the advice offered. Many others may have received these letters. My advice is to ignore them and use your own judgement. Don’t be stampeded into descions based on hypothesis and innuendo. Oh, the sender is a Mrs T May, of Westminster. P Rose Chapelfields
Fears over immigration
BEFORE you cast your vote, let us remember a specific item in the Labour manifesto which seems to have been forgotten during the publicity of the recent terrorist attacks, which is their immigration policy.
Will the whole world and his wife plus their dependants be able to set up home here? Will they have jobs, will they have homes, can they speak English, can they finance themselves in the early stages? What about education and health issues?
Mrs May has had problems controlling immigration so what it will be like if there is no control? I dread to think. Think about that before you cast your vote. Sylvia Seeley Nuneaton
Parties must tackle global poverty
DURING this election campaign, I am concerned with who will represent Nuneaton in the next parliament. There are many local and national issues at stake.
As a supporter of Catholic aid agency CAFOD, I hope that all parties will consider global issues too, and commit to build on Britain’s proud record in looking outwards and working with others to tackle poverty, inequality and climate change.
We live in an interconnected world. To say we can’t help people at home if we help them abroad is to present a false choice. We are big enough to do both; it is who we are and what we stand for. Roger Payne Baginton
Three opportunities – all missed by May
AT the beginning of the year, Theresa May had three once-in-alifetime golden opportunities and she fluffed all three.
An election in February or March would probably have been more decisive.
Brexit would have allowed her to give Northern Ireland back to the Irish Free State, and thus rid ourselves of the impending difficulties of a hard border.
Support for Nicola Sturgeon’s move to a referendum would have really put the population at this quarrelsome, awkward appendage on the spot – and certainly put Nicola Sturgeon in her place.
How unfortunate that she had neither the foresight nor the decisiveness of Margaret Thatcher. Kevin Lynch Westwood Heath
Take care when using ‘averages’
NEVER trust a politician (or a journalist) who uses the word ‘average’ without specifying whether they are referring to the mean, median or mode.
Philip Hammond is perhaps the worst offender here. When talking about the ‘average’ impact of Labour’s tax plans, he is clearly using the mean; but he implies that this is what most people will be paying, or what the middle-ranking person will be paying. This is extremely misleading; given the highly skewed distribution of wealth in Britain, the mean will be very much higher than either the mode or the median.
Mathematical illiteracy, Mr Hammond? Or deliberate deceit? Mike Wright Nuneaton