BBC just looking for the truth Recovery rushed with no thought
Here are some final thoughts on the BBC.
First, I would not lay the blame for the fearfulness of the British public and their slow return to work at the door of the BBC. It has more to do with propaganda and messaging of the government.
Second, there seems to be some misunderstanding of the role of the broadcaster. The BBC is not in the business of voicing an “opinion” on any issue. They have no collective view on these matters.
The role of the broadcaster is to elicit the truth and if interviewees peddle false or misleading information they have every right to challenge it. This is happening on the other side of the Atlantic where broadcasters are at last standing up to Donald Trump and nailing some of his lies.
Lastly, I find it extraordinary that anyone would wish to champion the cause of Dominic Cummings and, further, to claim that he was unfairly treated by the BBC.
That is not a view shared by the million or so people who signed a petition urging Boris Johnson to sack him.
Michael Charles
We are told to expect lorry parks in Manston (5,800 HGVs) and at Whitfield, a field near B&Q (1,200 HGVs) as well as two in Ashford (2,000 + 950).
We expect lorry queues from Manston to Whitfield or Dover, down the A256 and also queues/ Operation Brock on the M20/A20. Staffing of clearance offices in Calais has not increased, which will slow entry to EU27 from the UK.
Logically 2020 and 2021 are likely see new road building/ widening on the A256 by Sandwich/Felderland and on the A2 west and east of Whitfield roundabout to cope with these lorries.
Flyovers will be needed on Whitfield and Guston roundabouts but putting them in will all cause traffic disruption in 2020/2021, with knock-on effects on ambulance journeys, etc. Obviously no one wants unhygienic fly-parking by HGVs. But we east Kent residents should be allowed to ask why our corner of the orchard garden of England is coming in for so much damage; why Johnson’s ministers in London have done so little to protect us from the consequences of their decisions, why they’ve reneged on their promises of friction-less freight flow.
Smart digitalised controls? Really? Just watch the faces of our Border Force friends and neighbours when you ask