Why we should all be concerned for expats
Elliott Gould, actor Joel Schumacher, film director, Chris Copping, musician, Lenny Henry, actor/comedian Joe Swail, snooker player, Lea Michele, actress/singer, Liam Payne, singer, MR Garside’s recent message to Feedback in Wednesday’s Examiner was interesting.
In it he expresses disbelief that anyone should be concerned about the expats now living in Spain and, I suppose elsewhere in Europe. His call for another referendum because of this is tongue in cheek, but why?
Should we not be concerned about their welfare?
I presume he thinks that because they are wealthy enough to either have a second home or wish to escape the nonsense presently reducing this country to an international joke they are beyond our sympathies.
I wonder what would persuade him to be seriously calling for a third referendum on EU membership?
Would the plight of farmers whose livelihoods will be affected when we leave the EU bother him? Would the rise in food and fuel prices bother him? Would the inevitable shortage of nurses in the NHS be of concern? Would the destruction of safeguards on workers’ rights be an issue or the unemployment of those working in the finance sector? Perhaps the reduction in the influence of the UK internationally might cause him to rethink his views?
In all probability he will continue to cheer the febrile rants of the Brexiteers who, it seems, just can’t wait to reduce us all to penury and servitude to our cousins across the pond who long to flood our markets with chlorinated chickens and take over our NHS and make it “market driven”.
Perhaps he can’t wait to see us transformed into even more of a dumping ground for cheap Chinese imports. Perhaps we could even borrow Donald Trump’s plans for a wall across Dover beach.
Why not have a third referendum but this time without the false promises of £350 million per week for the NHS? Let’s be grown ups and have a reasoned debate this time.
Still, we have our sovereignty now. Pity we can’t eat it or fuel our cars with it though! I’D like to take issue with Ross Dada Moore (Feedback, Saturday, August 26).
Ross suggests ‘put it on rail and get diesel trucks off the road.’
No trucks? How would goods be delivered to the shops and supermarkets?
All goods start and finish their journey by road, whether to or from a railhead or a continuous journey by road.
If his idea is to use smaller vans instead, consider a lorry has an average 28-tonne payload which equates to about 28 vans carrying the same load, using more fuel, more wages, 28 drivers as opposed to one driver resulting in higher costs to the consumer.