Great food and drink fest – pity about the smokers
Nick Ross, broadcaster, Greg Chappell, former cricketer, Alexei Sayle, comedian Bruce Dickinson, heavy metal musician
David Duchovny, actor, Brian Conley, comedian/actor, Dominic Cork, former cricketer, WASN’T the Food and Drink Festival great? Just what Huddersfield needs.
We went on Friday afternoon with our 20-month-old granddaughter. She loved the atmosphere and the buzz of the crowd.
What she didn’t appreciate and nor did I were the numerous people standing around with lit cigarettes in their hands by their sides, placed to catch a passing 20-month-old on the head or square in the face.
Our granddaughter brushed passed one with her head and knocked the cigarette out of her had to the response of “Oops” from the girl who had been holding it, no attempt at “Sorry”.
The government can’t legislate for inconsiderate people but it can do something about smoking and should ban it in ALL public places including public highways, parks and places such as St George’s Square when events such as the food festival are being held.
Perhaps a £75 fine might instil some consideration for others into the smokers, but then again, probably not. IT has been wisely said that political parties lose elections; they do not win them.
The widespread feeling that Jeremy Corbyn is not to be trusted was borne out by his election promise to pay off student debt, followed by the rapid denial after the vote.
As cynical political bribes go this was a peach, but only the naive young, and Labour’s core vote fell for it, so Mr Corbyn succeeded in losing.
Then the Tories, apparently equally keen to lose the election, tried to introduce numerous unpopular or irrelevant policies rather than concentrating on the mandate they already had to actually leave the EU.
Now, determined to emulate their election losing streak back in government, they have rolled out Michael Gove’s truly bonkers ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040.
No-one in Mr Gove’s ministry seems to realise the enormous economic consequences.
The UK will need an expansion of our electricity generation capacity on a scale we have never managed in the past almost doubling our existing (already inadequate) capacity. Then the grid itself will have to be expanded and rebuilt.
In addition, barring the roads, almost the entire road transport sector and its energy infrastructure will have to be replaced. The cost must be in excess of £600 billion, and it won’t be done for 2040.
It makes HS2 look like a bargain, and leaving the EU a walk in the park. I NOTICE that the lend-lease company which runs Calderdale Royal Hospital says that the HRI should be demolished due to concrete cancer, and all rebuilding works will be organised very expensively by them, presumably.
Can any-one see the connection? Personally I would prefer a totally independent building inspector to check the condition of HRI before any such decisions are made.