Shocked at contempt for free speech in a democracy Pity roads were not closed for event
HAVING read Robert Morris’s letter I am shocked and ashamed of his contempt for free thought and free press in the UK.
Robert appears to believe that the 16 million of us who voted to remain in the EU have no right to express our views and the few of us who read the Guardian (I don’t) have no right to read the paper. I have to say that at a circulation of 160,000 there are either a lot of well thumbed copies out there or there are the best part of 16 million who are capable of thinking for ourselves.
Also we are not stupid, the stats are there to say that the higher educational attainment in a geographical area the more likely it was to vote remain.
I have a Polish friend of my age who having lived through the communist era and whose parents and grandparents also lived through the Nazi occupation and saw the Jewish ghetto in Lodz cleared of its 200,000 population (the true evil side if a dictatorship), made a point I think is valid after the Brexit vote.
She summed it up as the problem with the British is that they have never lived under a dictatorship. I think Robert would quite enjoy it but only if his views matched the dictatorship. David Bates, Hinckley WHAT a bad decision by Burbage Parish Council not to close Windsor Street for the Xmas celebrations
We in Burbage so look forward to the lighting of the Xmas tree and we were not disappointed this year with the stalls dotted around the village together with the children’s funfair at the Red Lion and the shops opening until late
However, to negotiate between them all was a nightmare. There were cars parked everywhere, and the traffic along Windsor Street and Church Street was at it’s peak with people travelling home from work and to get to the chip shop, the pubs and to the Xmas celebrations. People with young children and pushchairs were having to weave their way through the traffic and trying to cross the very busy roads
A lot of people were complaining and I think the Council need to weigh up the health and safety problems they caused and re-think next year Sue Kyte