Stop wasting time on apps and kill the virus instead
Why don’t the council focus on more pressing matters in their local area such as drug-related crime and everything associated with it? Nah, let’s just have a tiff about some benches. Useless council.
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock is now, Thursday July 30, telling us that we will likely be hit by a second wave of coronavirus which is coming from Europe.
Can I remind Mr Hancock that we are still in the first wave with 300-400 people per week still dying from the virus.
And why Mr Hancock? Because you haven’t done your job properly!!
Whereas the devolved governments are working to eliminate the virus, he prefers to waste time, energy and taxpayers money on knee-jerk, failed projects like his tracking app, test and trace and the list goes on. All were going to be game changers remember.
But there again, when thinking up excuses for all those failures and finding scapegoats to lay the blame on, there isn’t much time left for the day job.
High time council changed priorities
YOUR report on the long-running disagreement between local dairy farmers and Kirklees Council (Tony Earnshaw, July 29) mentions one public group interested in the council’s persistence: folk who tell officials they want to ride through the Bradleys’ land, presumably on horseback.
Given the continuing urgency of the C19 crisis - unlikely to disappear in the next 12 months - could the council pull back on the reins of this strategic white horse and redirect efforts down a radically different pathway?
Winter is five months hence, and potentially harsh. Consider the likely goodwill and effectiveness created by the seven experienced committee members putting aside bridleway disputes to support preparations in schools, care homes, health centres and hospitals.
Barnard Castle is a sight for sore eyes
NOW that holidays in Spain are effectively ruled out for the time being (unless of course, you are Stanley Johnson), I think it is worth listening to the advice RJ
Bray has been giving us about holidaying in this country.
I’m told that Barnard Castle is a particular delight and almost bound to leave you feeling rejuvenated - especially if you have been having trouble with your eyesight.
Road plan cheaper than a new hospital
RE: the article, Unanimous approval for A629 scheme (Examiner, July 30).
Surely the sentence that reads: “Plans for the next phase of multi-million pound works to improve the main route between two West Yorkshire towns have been given the green light,” should actually read: “To improve the road from Huddersfield to Calderdale Hospital, the powers that be, the ‘experts,’ will have calculated that with the huge PFI debt hanging over The Calderdale Royal Hospital, it was the cheaper option to investing in a new hospital in Huddersfield.”
But then, it was ‘experts’ that gave us the Windscale disaster. If you are under 40, look it up.