JLR should source parts from the UK
RE: ‘JLR boss issues Brexit warning to Theresa May’ (Sep 14). Perhaps Ralph Speth, head of JLR, instead of predicting doom from Brexit – albeit from one missing “component part” from the EU – maybe these vital parts can now be sourced from a UK supplier?
The now defunct Massey Ferguson plant hailed the “just in time” ethos as our saviour.
We all know what happened there, don’t we.
Cheaper to build cars in Slovakia, he says! I will let someone else more in tune with like-for-like cost of living index reply to that. Dave McConnell Shilton
Common phrases now deemed racist
I COULD not believe what I was reading when it was reported that a senior officer at Scotland Yard has been suspended because he used the phrase ‘whiter than white’ which is apparently now considered to be racist. What nonsense! This sort of phrase is commonly used as well as others such as ‘as pure as the driven snow’ or ‘as good as gold’ and means in general as being ‘morally pure’ or ‘having an untarnished reputation’. In no way is it a term of racist abuse. Meanwhile in the news, a convicted rapist and paedophile decided to become transgender, said he identified as a woman and asked go into a women’s prison. Amazingly this was done and once in there, he sexually assaulted four women. Is there no limit to the ridiculous things that are taking place these days? Does no-one, especially in some sort of authority, have any common sense any more?
As my old mum-in-law used to say, I don’t know what the world is coming to. Sylvia Seeley Nuneaton
Bus crash case has taken long time
IT is remarkable that it has taken about three years relating to the fatal bus crash at Sainsbury’s in 2015.
When there is a fatal car crash there seems to be a much quicker conclusion, which is baffling. Ian Harris Radford
We will not forgive if it all goes wrong
I HAVE seen many politicians come and go, many madcap schemes proposed and forgotten – but I always had faith that somehow sanity would prevail. Yet recent events have convinced me our political system is falling apart.
The economic future of our country is going to depend on the negotiations presently being held with the EU and, 27 months after the referendum vote was held, no one – politicians, the media, or the citizens of this country – seems to have any idea what’s going on.
When I hear Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg shrugging off the likelihood of a ‘hard Brexit’ and the damage it could do to our economy it seems to me that they don’t have any idea of the concerns people have if it all goes wrong.
JLR warn that without an agreement on trade with Europe it could lead to a substantial loss of jobs in manufacturing, a warning given to the government by a number of major employers but which seems to have been completely ignored.
It no longer matters how people voted in the referendum, the reality is that the UK will leave the EU next March, but what does matter is that the government is held to account by the people if their negotiations damage our country.
Make it clear that we will never forgive them if they take away the future of our kids. Bob Arnott Holbrooks