I hope city MP’s organ donor consent bill fails

MAY I express my sincere hope that Geoffrey Robinson’s evil bill fails in Parliament?

Why should politicians steal my body from my family when I die? Didn’t Burke and Hare get convicted for their efforts?

Would I be expected to sign onto some register which may or may not be checked when the time comes and would I have to carry a ‘refuse to donate’ card?

This smacks of corruption at its worst. We are supposed to live in a free society which surely means that we would make decisions on such important issues as this on our own without interference by outsiders.

I repeat: I hope this evil bill fails, hopefully miserably. MT Hancock Wyken

Scandalous rise in our council tax bill

WITH Coventry council tax increasing by about five per cent, it is scandalous.

We doubt we will get value for money. No wonder trust in politicians is lower than a snake’s belly. Ian Harris Radford

We should spend money more wisely

I JUST cannot believe that the council can say it has lost £107 million yet allocates money for when the city becomes the UK City of Culture.

If the council can find this sort of money it should be spent more wisely by taking the homeless off the streets and giving then a place of shelter to sleep at night, also help them get back into work. This makes me ashamed to be British today.

During the war years we never saw so many homeless sleeping on our streets. I know a lot of this has been caused by this government with cutbacks to council funding, I agree, but we should do more to offset this problem.

Come on Labour, show these Tories we not going to let this happen to our great city of Coventry – just look at what that Great Lady did to save the people of Coventry from paying high taxation, she rode through the streets naked. We can do something similar to fight this government from having these cuts bestowed up on us by standing together and be united as one party.

There is so much we can do. This is something we should look at now – start to ask for this money to start to put in place these electric car charging points. Philip Hammond stated there is £400 million to install an electric charging network, so let us be in there first and start to prove this to our citizens. John Bevan Binley

Bigger not always better for cities

RE: In his letter (Nov 14), Myles Mackie says that the city is well balanced with regard to housing.

Does he only read what he wants to read? What about all the other areas facing massive housing developments, also on green belt land? Once this land has gone it will be gone forever.

With regard to housing numbers, it has been said by many other groups that the figures projected are inaccurate. If all these houses are built I wonder if Mr Mackie will be happy with another week to wait for his wheelie bin to be emptied?

I do not object to some new housing but we are still owed some millions on unpaid council tax. Sadly, Mr Mackie, not all can pay their way, so you no doubt will not object to paying more for the ones who cannot pay, won’t pay and do not pay?

We cannot go on building for building’s sake and making the city an ugly place no one wants to live. Let us concentrate on a clean city, let us see if we get UK City of Culture status. If we do, that may reassure a lot of people, if not then more questions have to be asked of councillors.

What is it that by being a big city will be of benefit to us all? It will only mean that we will be worse off than we are now. No more decent shops, dirty pavements, vomitridden streets that are not cleaned and litter shrewn everywhere.

I am a born and bred Coventrian and was once pleased to say so. However, hearing so many people disapproving of the way Coventry is going, I am not alone.

Perhaps if Mr Mackie went into the city stores and listened to people talking, he would realise there are a lot of people who share my opinions rather than his.

People have criticised Earlsdon for what students have done to the area. We want a better city, a clean city, and a city we can say we are proud of – not an over-crowded city as we will going back in time.

Remember the Great Fire of London started in Pudding Lane? If the houses had not been built so