Morrisons showing their true community spirit

Miranda Richardson, actress Fatima Whitbread, former athlete, Jackie JoynerKersee, former athlete, Darren Anderton, former footballer, Ronan Keating, pop singer

Alex Zane, television presenter, Jessica Biel, actress/model, I WOULD really like to thank Morrisons supermarket at Waterloo for erecting the new light on the path to Mereside.

I was asked by residents to look into a light on the path as it was dark and they were concerned about anti-social behaviour.

I contacted both Kirklees and Morrisons and we had several site visits on the path and discussed possible options, one that I part fund through my District Committee funding.

Morrisons, as a gesture of goodwill, have now installed the light at their expense and will also be responsible for the running costs and maintenance of the light.

So once again thank you to Morrisons for listening and working in and with the community. YOUR readers may recall my playing to the Brexiteer gallery during the EU referendum campaign.

But in the light of our famous victory things have got somewhat serious.

Remain campaigners, who seek to thwart the result, might have arguments worth listening to if only they were not the same as those made during the referendum campaign. Merely characterising Brexiteers as extremists is nonsense.

They asked only that the democratic process be used to resolve the matter. Is it too much to ask the result be honoured?

We hear of the need to ‘think again’ as if the final outcome of the Brexit process was unknowable. Well it was known.

Repeated constantly in the referendum campaign it was the end to the UK’s membership of all of the institutions of the EU and the British people voted Leave.

There has been no change in the institutional make-up of the EU and, more importantly, there has been no catastrophic meltdown of our economy.

Far from it, our economy has continued to grow and there has been no exodus of investment.

The only source of uncertainty has been the reluctance of Remain campaigners to accept defeat and support a post-Brexit trading relationship with the EU.

To some it appears arrogant, to me it is just pathetic.

But the mere belief on the part of some Remain campaigners that we might have made the wrong decision is no excuse to re-run the referendum. They should, perhaps, be careful what they wish for. They lost once, they could lose again!