These differences in the decisions make no sense

The people of Huddersfield should get a say in what is built on Castle Hill. We don’t want an eyesore dominating us. Sandie Shaw, singer, David Edgar, playwright, Helen Clark, former New Zealand prime minister, Michael Bolton, singer/ songwriter, Erykah Badu, singer/ actress, Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player,

Corinne Bailey Rae, singer/songwriter, I SEE the three Holmfirth councillors are against the development of a brown field site.

The one I refer to is at Washpit Mills, and they are against it due to the state of the access road the same road that when the mill was working three shifts per day had double decker buses travelling on it, plus all the HGV wagons collecting and delivering goods to the mill.

These same councillors were not very vocal or helpful when they allowed more houses to be built at Cinderhills on a green field site and where one of the routes from the site into Holmfirth is down the very steep, badly maintained South lane which in parts is only single line traffic.

The road to the Washpit Mills is a super highway in comparison. government made up of Tories, like May, Johnson and Gove etc, are going to rush to force UK companies to ‘buy British.’

No chance. They do not believe in State interference or subsidy.

The whole point of leaving the EU as far as they are concerned is to remove regulations, that is, protection of the environment and the workplace.

We can expect longer working hours with no real rise in pay – already a feature of years of Tory ‘austerity.’

The Health Service will be opened to increased competition with US health companies muscling in as part of a trade deal with America.

And as investment in the NHS stagnates, the cost of any such contracts will consume an increasing share of the budget, much as PFI has already taken a chunk of our health and education spending.

Recent Tory governments have shown no desire to ‘inject some capital to try to safeguard’ jobs.

They have preferred to cut government spending where possible - local authorities, the NHS and education, as well as the police service - thus cutting jobs.

The loss of spending power in the economy helps to explain why the UK has experienced one of the slowest recovery from the 2008/9 financial crisis of all western economies.

Leaving the EU may well turn out to be as disastrous as predicted by most economists especially if we leave power in the hands of the present shower. YOU recently wrote about the demise of Thatchers.

Mr Thatcher and his wife, Flo, and son Herbert lived over the road from my family in Dalton, in the forties, fifties and sixties fellow Liverpudlians.

When he saw me dashing out to work, he used to say, “only donkeys and silly beggars ...” (Work).

Before relocating his premises to Dundas Street, he had premises at the Wakefield Road end of Kings Mill Lane - not Queens Mill Lane.