Plan for hospital upgrade makes an impression

Good news with progress being made in upgrading the Harvey’s A&E department.

It’s difficult to understand why the process has taken so long considering the amount of local pressure. Of course, wherever bureaucrats are concerned, nothing happens when mere mortals think it should.

Don’t you just love the ‘artist’s impression’ of the place on page seven of last week’s Kentish Express. Has anyone ever seen any finished article that resembles such impressions?

As always, I have a good read of the ‘Letters to the Editor’ pages each week. The one that struck me most was P. Golding’s submission with its myriad ‘vast majority’ assertions.

While I agree with most of his statements, I most strongly disagree when he says ‘the vast majority voted for

Brexit.’ In fact, The margin was 3.78% hardly indicative of a ‘vast’ majority. I was surprised at the time that it was to be a first past the post vote rather than, say, a requirement of at least a 25% majority to determine the real mind of the people.

And now, of course, the Brexit adventure seems to be turning rather sour with the shortage of domestic truckers and a block on foreign drivers and casual EU workers currently causing shortages of pretty well everything, from foodstuffs to industrial essentials, with experts predicting we’re going to lose out on some of our traditional Christmas goodies.

Bodger’s not doing too well at the moment. And then there’s the business of climate change, where he’s due to host a G7 meeting on the subject.

High on the agenda will be the matter of fossil fuels. He’s apparently due to give the go-ahead to a new coal mine in Cumbria and a vast oil and gas drilling project in the sea, somewhere West of Shetland. He seems to believe that it will be a cunning plan to delay giving the OK to these projects until after the G7 meeting, perhaps presuming that the other members won’t catch on.

‘Of course, wherever bureaucrats are concerned, nothing happens when mere mortals think it should’