Britain’s a real democracy — unlike the EU
HOW can 27 nations reach agreement in hours, while the UK fails to do so in months (Letters)?
The answer is simple: Like the Soviet politburo, decisions are rubber-stamped and dissention is not tolerated.
Woe betide any country that steps out of line — they will find their generous funding (much of which is currently provided by us) cut off or reduced. The rules of the game are made in Brussels and everyone knows to toe the line.
What we have seen in the UK is a true democratic process. If the actions of your MP are not to your liking, you will be able to get rid of them at the next General Election. There won’t be an election for the Brussels elite. RAYMOND NORMAN, Hemingstone, Suffolk. WHO does European Council President Donald Tusk think he is talking to when he tells us not to waste the six-month extension the EU has kindly granted us?
If Europe had listened to David Cameron when he advocated reform, and had not sent him home empty-handed, he wouldn’t have lost the referendum and we wouldn’t have been in this mess.
But the alternative would have left us dealing with the far bigger mess of being tied indefinitely to Europe. Perhaps we should thank the EU for accidentally letting us off the leash.
ERIC ROYDS, Bicester, Oxon. ONE clear thing came from the EU’s decision to extend the period for Brexit negotiations. They did so because they are fearful of No Deal. Of course, our stupid MPs decided to throw out that option.
A. ROBINS, Ringwood, Hants.
FA Cup own goal
I HAVE been a supporter and season ticket holder of Watford FC for the past 80 years.
My father watched Watford before they moved to Vicarage Road and was a gatekeeper on the main grandstand for 30 years. My son and grandchildren are also season ticket holders.
I am disgusted at the cost of FA Cup final tickets. They are a rip-off! Something should be done to make these events affordable to the genuine fans who are the lifeblood of the clubs.
We paid £245 (one full-price and three concessions) for the semifinal, plus fees and postage. Tickets for the final will cost £430. How can this be justified?
JOHN SLATER, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.
Double standards
SIR ROGER SCRUTON has been sacked from his position as a government adviser because he exercised his human right of freedom of speech regarding Islam, homosexuality, Hungary and China (Mail).
Zamzam Ibrahim, who in the past said she wanted ‘an Islamic takeover’ and wished to ‘oppress white people just to give them a taste of what they put us through’, has been elected president of the National Union of Students.
HARRY DIXON, Lichfield, Staffs.
Call the midwife
MEGHAN’S decision to give birth at home must have set off alarm bells in the medical profession.
How many pregnant women will want to follow her example and in the process put themselves and their babies at risk?
The safest place to give birth is in a hospital. Meghan’s circumstances are different from those of most women. She will have the undivided attention of clinical experts. Should anything go wrong, she will have instant access to the best medical facilities.
For other women, a home birth takes place in their bedroom with just a midwife present and limited equipment. Should there be complications, how quickly can they be taken to the nearest maternity hospital? GuY HAYWARD, address supplied. IS IT necessary for us to know how and where Meghan and Harry are going to have their baby?
They are not of any special interest and they are not the only expectant parents to be having a baby. What they are is another drain on the public purse.
MARGOT DARBY, Haddenham, Cambs.
Nuts to Parliament
THE temporary building for Parliament (Mail) looks like half a peanut shell, so should be ideal to house the nutcases ruling us.
S. SHEPLEY, Sevenoaks, Kent. WILL the heating for the new Westminster bubble be provided by recycled hot air from MPs?
MIKE HOWELL, Folkestone, Kent. THE proposed temporary building for Parliament looks like a slug. Our so- called representatives should feel right at home.
D. TuRGOOSE, Grantham, Lincs. WHY on earth are we renovating the Houses of Parliament? Keep it as a crumbling monument to political ineptitude. Let the natural forces of decrepitude claim it: a nation’s final rebuke to an obsolete institution. D. JENNINGS, Mickleton, Glos.
Potty idea
WALSALL Council is employing nappy changers for five-year-old schoolchildren because single mums and absentee dads don’t have the time to devote to toilet training (Mail).
Well, I think this is a potty idea that should be pooh-poohed!
KEN HOBBINS, Birmingham. I WAS told my children could not go to nursery or school unless they were toilet trained. That was certainly an incentive to get them out of nappies. Mrs M. A. HAY, Studley, Warks. IF PARENTS can’t be bothered to toilet train their children by the age of five, schools should refuse to teach them. J. WALMSLEY, Bury, Gtr Manchester.