Excellent Music Festival ... shame about the iPhones!

Dame Shirley Porter, former politician, Jacques Chirac, French politician Ladd, actress, David Rintoul, actor, Cheadle, actor, Ryan Giggs, footballer

Anna Faris, actress, CONGRATULATIONS to Graham McKenzie and his team for another adventurous Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Though I have been to every festival since it started in 1978 and revelled in the range and skill of those on stage, it is sad to report that this year it has been hit by that dreaded 21st century malaise - the iPhone.

To the two young women who throughout the 80-minute performance at the LBT on Sunday evening constantly checking their phones on and off, what is so important you cannot wait until the end of the concert, and do you ever consider those people around you?

I’m sure the Festival Director who was sat directly behind me observed this also? November 27) teaching ‘does not promote consistently good progress,’ are examples given of consistent progress in other schools?

Perhaps progress occasionally reaches a turning point, as it does in, say, football, business, and politics, because the world is trickier than we think. I AM a staunch Remain campaigner, who is actively working with many others to prevent our country from losing the advantages of being a part of the family of European Nations.

As such, I can say with certainty that there is no such organisation as Continuity Remain. Never has been.

But if Nick thinks ‘they’ are going to win and stop Brexit, well that’s fine with me. THE joke about the EU is that if the EU applied for entry to the EU it would be rejected because it is not democratic enough.

People had votes in the communist GDR - just there was no choice.

Likewise, the EU “parliament” is a figleaf. MEPs have less power than our appointed Lords.

But Remains defend the system of appointing someone like “President” Juncker by trying to claim he is “elected”.

The EU is merely an oligarchy of politicians who are appointed and self-appointed, together with politically-active appointed Commissioners.

Democracy is regime change without the civil war.

The EU fails every test of democracy: there are no demos, no official opposition, and no possibility of removing the EU “government” or changing its policies short of major riots or insurrection.

A consensus can be wrong, but there is no way of finding out under the EU.

In our Parliament we have Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition for a reason. Perhaps that is why the EU is so corrupt and dysfunctional.