Never mind cones – use double yellows Shocked by British political scandal

DRIVING along Brinklow Road on Wednesday (Jun 6) I was treated to the sight of about 200 ‘no parking’ traffic cones lining the road on both sides, all the way from the Coventry boundary almost to the start of Brinklow village, which must be almost two miles.

Presumably this is aimed at visitors to Coombe Abbey who may be tempted to park on the road.

My question is – surely the effort involved by workmen to deposit these cones along the roadside is quite costly in terms of time and labour. There are already some signs saying that parking on the verges is unlawful, so why is such is massive display of cones necessary?

If the problem is so great why don’t the council just paint double yellow lines all the way along the road which will be there for all time and not need any further labour resources once they have been painted?

The other question is – if parking on Brinklow Road is such a problem, does this point to a lack of sufficient parking spaces within Coombe Abbey? Or are the parking charges in there so steep that drivers feel the need to park outside on the road? If so, something needs to be done about it. Paul Blundell

Whitley amongst that group was clearly a billion to one against.

People – and they will usually be men – clearly unfit for public office either through lack of competence or character, are thereby leveraged into power through family connections or the Old School Tie.

The father’s buddies, where the aristocracies ensure their election, whatever colour they are or whatever party they represent, are clearly deeply corrupt.

If the UK is ever to become a dynamic nation, a wind must blow out all these networks, traditions and hierarchies, and make equality its hallmark. Bill Haymes Spon End THE country seems to have been transfixed by A Very British Scandal.

It seemed to come as a bit of a shock to most viewers, who were not aware of the Liberal Democrat leader Jeremy Thorpe’s intention to retain his leadership role at any price. This riveting television series soon put paid to that!

I was more shocked and scandalised when viewing the Parliament channel a couple of months ago, when a professor was giving a history of Liberal Democratic Party leaders for the last hundred years or so, with no mention of Jeremy Thorpe.

But, as Liberal Democrat MP Cyril Smith was also never referred to, I began to think that this was a very odd political history lecture.

Perhaps this is how political history is taught nowadays. More’s the pity! Joan Griffin Allesley