Wreathes should be put out on time
AS always, I attended the service at War Memorial Park on Remembrance Sunday. The numbers attending this year seemed to far exceed previous years and rightly so, as this year is the centenary of the 1918 Armistice.
On Tuesday, November 14, I took an early morning walk around the park with the intention of viewing the wreathes on the memorial.
This was at 9.15am and sadly the wreathes were not on display. There was a small army of park workers frantically blowing fallen leaves about with motorised blowers. I asked one what time the wreathes should go out at? She directed me to the park office. At said office I spoke to two ladies who informed me they were “just about to pull the wreathes out for display”.
I continued with my walk, reading the memorial plaques along the way. Eventually the wreathes were wheeled out of the Cenotaph and put on display at 10.15am.
I was always led to believe that the wreathes should be be brought out first thing in the morning and taken back in at 4.30pm. They are only on display for two weeks so to get them out on time surely is not to much to ask. Brian Nathan-Partridge Stivichall
Throw out Chequers deal
IT has been immediately clear that the Prime Minister’s Chequers deal was little more than a exercise to recreate the UK’s EU membership from outside involving de facto membership of the single market obeying EU rules and the European court.
As a parliamentary candidate in 2017 for Coventry NE, I stood on a manifesto, believed in the commitments that the Prime Minister made in her Lancaster House Speech.
The PM and the country need to throw out the Chequers plan, the last two years of negotiations have demonstrated there is a basis for a future partnership based on a Super Canada Trade Agreement.
My biggest issue with Chequers is our commitment to follow a common rule book. This is of course in practise the EU rule book interpreted by the European Court. This means the UK would be locked into current laws and would have to adopt future rules over which it had no influence.
Coventry voted with 85,097 residents wanting Leave; a massive 55 per cent on a turnout of 69 per cent. We must respect the referendum result allowing us to take control of our boards, money and control our laws. The opportunity for us to forge a new global independent trade policy focused on UK and Coventry interest is now here. I have utter respect for my colleagues who are putting the referendum result before their careers. We must stop flogging a dead horse and embrace the other option. The Super Canada deal is built on existing precedent, using tried and tested terms of trade.
I am proud to represent Coventry as a city councillor and proud of our history. All in the chamber need to fight for what the majority of residents wanted. We have been and will be again a free trading nation able to be truly global in our approach. Councillor Tim Mayer (Con) Westwood ward
Keep the Coventry Cross where it is
COVENTRY Cross should not be moved. I agree with Fran Roberts and the 400 others who signed the petition.
What is this council thinking? And the price in your paper saying it would be moved to a “superior position in Iron Monger Row”.
It’s a joke. Iron Monger Row is a drop-off point for buses, taxis and a crossing point for pedestrians who can’t walk up the hill into Broadgate.
Council leaders, the joke is over. We have had to watch you spend money on a splash pool, which people with families can’t afford.
We are all trying to feed the people with donating to food banks. Mrs Robins Radford
Support meeting for osteoporosis
ON Thursday, November 29, the meeting of The Coventry Osteoporosis Support Group will be having a presentation by Francis Maree, the clinical lead, and she will be informing us about pain management.
The meeting will take place in the Church Hall of St John the Baptist which is on the corners of Hill Street, Spon Street and Fleet Street, and starts at 2pm. The admission fee is £3 and includes a cup of tea.
You do not have to have osteoporosis to attend, but come and find out more at our meeting. Mrs June Barby (treasurer) Coventry Osteoporosis Support Group
No mandate and no say in the deal
SINCE the PM announced her deal for exiting the EU, many politicians opposing her have been stating that this is “not what the public voted for in the referendum”.
Will someone explain to me how this can be a true statement, when the people were only asked to vote on whether we should stay or leave the EU – not on the terms we would leave on.
The people are now left with no say in the content of a deal which has been negotiated by a government with no clear mandate from the citizens of this country.
‘Democracy’? You must be joking. Bob Arnott Holbrooks