No rationale shown as Brexit date approaches
RECENTLY one of your correspondents indicated he would like to read letters about things other than Brexit and Covid.
“And now for something completely different ...” Poetic licence I know, but a nod to The Flying Circus for use of their phrase.
Since the Data Act made it compulsory for websites to protect the privacy of surfers I have been bombarded by cookies. Rather than my privacy being protected I have found my email inbox full of weird and wonderful things.
I’ve been invited to earn money as a mystery shopper, I’ve been advised of hundreds of prizes I have won, my piggy bank could be full of bitcoins, I could amass huge wealth by making claims against all and sundry and I have had more Russian girls wanting to give their bodies to me than there are girls in Russia.
All these could be mine, simply, because to surf you have to give permission for these cookies to be used.
I have tried saying no to cookies. I have been selective in the permission I give for cookies to be used.
All to no avail. My emails have now multiplied to massive proportions, mostly spam, and mostly wanting me to give them my bank details. Some privacy?
So many ruses thought up by unscrupulous persons to take my money. Beware!
I think cookies take the biscuit!
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IT has been interesting to watch the antics of Tory MPs from the deep south all screaming foul as Bojo puts them into tiered restrictions.
Now I note that there aren’t many in the top tier but they are even crying foul over being put in tier 2. It seems that it’s ok for northern areas to be locked up but not those in the south. They weren’t crying then. In fact even our own tame Tory MPs weren’t doing much to help. The old football chant of “you only sing when you’re winning” seems appropriate.
I suppose now that Bojo has noticed his mates’ anger those in Kent will be coming out of tier 3 in a week or two. Mind you, I’m not sure I would swap places with them even then as Kent is about to become the biggest car park in the country after we jump off the Brexit cliff at the end of the year.
I read recently that there will be a shortage of public WCs as the queues of lorries build up. Apparently residents are already finding pop bottles of urine and bags of human faeces in gardens and hedgerows so this might be another problem for the clown in Downing Street.
I ask you, what rational leader would inflict a no deal exit on a country whose economy is already a basket case?
Shock that park has fallen into disrepair
ON Tuesday I visited Ravensknowle Park. It was where we used to go when young. I was totally shocked by the way Kirklees Council have allowed the park to fall into disrepair.
The historic monument known as the Cloth Hall is covered in graffiti and obscenities. Paving flags are broken and there are many signs of drugs being used there.
The bowling green is now completely covered in moss whilst those at Greenhead Park are in pristine condition. The lawns and grass are overgrown and buildings crumbling.
What used to be the Park Cafe appears to have been taken over by council staff.
What used to house the historic coaches has been boarded and closed but was taken over, yet again by council staff. Where there used to be an aviary now stand two massive metal containers which are generating power and making an awful noise.
Where beautiful flowers were planted there are now small shrubs that haven’t even been sorted for the winter.
To cap it all, a Kirklees Land Rover and trailer drove across the grass leaving deep imprints. Why didn’t they use the pathways which are wide enough for such traffic?
It is quite obvious that this once proud park has been allowed to go to pot by the council.
It’s alright spending £250,000,000 on the town centre, an unnecessary whim, but a tiny portion of this money would restore Ravensknowle Park it’s former glory.
Why not reopen the cafe during summer? This park was left to the people of Huddersfield, not as an office block for half a dozen council workers.