Shell out for tide signs as we’ve got Covid message

I’ VE still got an old children’s book which features a group of lads being cut off by the incoming tide, and having to be rescued as a result. Indeed, tides are potentially a problem at many seaside resorts, something Geoff Ford refers to in his latest column (April 2).

As Ford says, most locals will know of the dangers, with responsible adults perhaps being able to negotiate “a walk of the tide line as it goes out”.

Yet Cleethorpes is a tourist destination, meaning that many on the sands won’t necessarily be aware of the risks.

This will be particularly true of young children, and those under the influence.

So while I would never do anything other than praise the work of local patrols, perhaps we do need more warning signs in place. After all, we’re lucky enough to have such a vast stretch of beach, making continual observation exceptionally difficult.

Certainly, I feel such signs would be more beneficial than the new anti-Covid material springing up throughout our borough, telling people to “Think Hands”, “Think Face” and “Think Space”. For quite honestly if we haven’t got the message by now, we’re never going to.

Indeed, to me the new signs only emphasise the fact that we’ve moved rapidly towards an authoritarian society over the past year or so, with Covid used as an excuse to curb our hard-earned freedoms.

Given that we’re supposed to be on a road map to normality, I for one would prefer to see notices telling us what we can do, not what we can’t.

Incidentally, I couldn’t help seeing that the European Union Development Fund were among the bodies responsible for the signage. Thankfully, they won’t be able to inflict such waste on us in future, as we’ve moved on from their bureaucratic clutches.

Tim Mickleburgh,

Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.