Common sense is now needed

If one studies the history of hot summers in England then one will see that we had summers to remember in 1911, 1976, 1990 and 2003, to name but four.

I have clear memories of the last three and cannot recall the sort of mass hysteria that was whipped up by this inefficient government and the ridiculous media.

The actual warnings about the heat were so obvious as to be insulting to anybody with an ounce of common sense.

As we do not get these Mediterranean temperatures that often I, like many others, took to the beach with my trusty water bottle and a few cases of sun oil.

I must say that apart from the grass the only other things that I found dead were a few unlucky jellyfish washed up on the beaches.

As with Covid, it seems that the government thinks the only way to manage a situation is to create a mass panic.

A lot is being made of the current heatwave as being part of global warming and that we are entering a climate crisis.

Maybe and obviously we have to be aware of this as we are slowly poisoning the planet. It does not take a genius to see that.

But instead of taking a cool and reasoned approach we seem to be surrounded by climate hysteria.

Although the last couple of days have been a tad hotter than the previous summers mentioned by a few degrees, I cannot remember the same hysteria being provoked and I wonder if global warming was blamed during the exceptionally hot summer in 1911.

I do sometimes wish that there was a Common Sense Party in existence in the UK, as it would get my vote.

Greta-Jane Miller