Daily Mail

LETTERS

- KEN McLEOD, Leeds.

Sea sense

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN’S column about Rear Admiral Alex Burton highlights the Navy’s obsession with being politicall­y correct and illustrate­s the gap between the hierarchy and serving personnel.

Sailors want more ships at sea, protecting our maritime economy, while the ‘Sir Humphrey’ Admirals care more about appeasing the Government and lobby groups.

We have a failed destroyer fleet and aircraft carriers without aircraft.

When the Chinese dominate the Pacific and embargo products from other South-East Asian countries, or the Russians decide to blockade the Black Sea and Primark and Marks & Spencer have no products to sell, maybe the public will realise why sea lanes, powerful navies and non-PC, warlike Admirals are important.

I would not trust most Admirals to run the Isle of Wight ferry.

JACK HAYWARD, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. WHEN I think of the Royal Navy, I recall the Atlantic convoys, Dunkirk and the Falklands Task Force.

Compare the heroism of the sailors in these and many other battles with the stupid tweets of Rear Admiral Alex Burton.

The Russian fleet must be laughing their heads off that, in its obsession with diversity, our Navy would think of employing such a twerp.

Name and address supplied.

Border farce

THE chaos at airports throughout Europe appears to be targeted at British holidaymak­ers under the pretext of anti-terrorist security.

Is it an attempt to make us believe this will be the norm after Brexit?

The solution is simple: on the same basis of anti-terror precaution­s, every French, Spanish, Italian, Eastern European and German lorry coming into the UK through Dover, Portsmouth and Plymouth needs to be unloaded and checked.

How long before the Spanish farmers, German industrial giants and French hauliers put pressure on their government­s to relax the airport restrictio­ns?

JOHN HILLS, Farnham, Surrey. LONG queues at airports due to increased and thorough passport and immigratio­n controls. Border checks rigorously enforced. Brexit anyone?

TERRY GIBBS, London NW7.

Hire car heroes

NOT all car rental firms abroad try to rip off British tourists (Mail).

A driver hit a pedestrian sign, which damaged my hired Citroen in Tenerife. It had a cracked windscreen and needed a new wing and bonnet.

The local hire firm gave me another vehicle at no extra charge. BOB SUTHERLAND,

Montrose, Angus.

Back in control

LET’S put an end to all this nonsense about having to arrange a deal with Europe over the free movement of people following Brexit. There are claims that we must have European workers or our economy will fall apart. If that is true, there is nothing to stop us inviting whoever we like here the day after Brexit.

We don’t need the EU’s permission to do so and they can’t stop us. Stopping free movement does not mean stopping all movement; it just gives us control over who comes, for how long and for what reasons.

DAVID COOPER, Rugby, Warks. I WISH the people who voted to leave the EU would desist in using the childish name of Remoaners when referring to the almost half of us who voted to stay.

We have not been considered in any way since the marginal referendum result so we have every right to complain (and campaign) for what we feel is right.

I don’t believe the vote was about putting the country’s interests first, but about Tory Party in-fighting.

B. HEATON, Doncaster, S. Yorks.

Animal crackers

WHAT a charming picture of a fox cub ( Letters). I do not have a problem with people feeding foxes, but I do object to other people’s enjoyment impacting on my life.

My garden has been designed for wildlife — butterflie­s, bees, hedgehogs and even badgers and foxes occasional­ly running through.

But I protest at neighbours who feed foxes, which then take their stash into my garden, causing damage. Plants have been dug up and stinking raw chicken joints buried in pots. Requests to stop feeding the foxes have fallen on deaf ears. JEAN BLANCHARD, South Benfleet, Essex.

Fairer pensions

I AM fed up with hearing how women have been ‘ripped off’ regarding their later pension date entitlemen­t.

We were all aware for years that the date for retirement for men and women was due to be harmonised.

The truth is women had preferenti­al pension treatment, despite the fact they live longer and tend to contribute for fewer years.

J. H. PEARCE, Warwick.

Dinner date

I SUFFERED with acid reflux for years (Good Health) and did not eat anything after lunch to avoid being unable to sleep due to indigestio­n.

My wife started the 5:2 diet in January and I decided to join her. After just three weeks, the reflux disappeare­d and has not returned. I even go out to dinner in the evening. Bye, bye, indigestio­n tablets.

PETER WRIGHT, Broadstair­s, Kent.

Spreadshee­t saboteur

WITH the Prime Minister on holiday, the Chancellor has been a busy saboteur. What a contrast to his invisibili­ty during the election.

Ignoring the announceme­nt of BMW’s electric Mini to be built here, in a TV interview he said he expected a fall in investment caused by Brexit. On the back of figures showing a

slight quickening of growth, he told the BBC that Brexit was responsibl­e for ‘ this slowdown’.

Is he trying to engineer his own sacking, before a Remainer coup propels Spreadshee­t Phil into No 10? MARTIN BURGESS,

Beckenham, Kent.

Shoddy GPs

I APPLAUD the quashing of the manslaught­er conviction of optometris­t Honey Rose (Mail). As an optometris­t, I had three instances of having to phone a hospital to request a referral for patients with swollen optic discs requiring urgent brain surgery.

Each of these patients had severe headaches and had been seen repeatedly by their GPs, who should have acted before I became involved.

At no time has anyone questioned the failure of doctors to diagnose this serious condition. PAUL MITCHELL, Bury, Gtr Manchester.

Di’s star quality

THE first person Princess Diana approached to train her in public speaking was Sir Richard Attenborou­gh. He later said: ‘The Princess had style, glamour and natural charisma, what we in the film industry call star quality. What she needed was confidence to appear before the public she so cared for.’

STEVEN DAVIS, Sheffield.

Branch lines

HAVING taken a neighbour to court over this, I know that you are not committing an offence by removing tree

branches hanging over your boundary and disposing of them if you have first offered them back (Letters).

Your neighbours do not have to accept them and you can’t throw them back. With leaves and fallen fruit, you have no responsibi­lity for clearing them from a neighbour’s land.

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