District turning into ugly car park

I agree with Terry Hudson (Not Everyone Has A Drive To Park On, Letters and Opinion, Kentish Gazette, November 10), that we live in an area with streets laid out in a pre-car period.

As such there are already too many cars for them all to be parked near our houses.

Cars driven up on pavements make life hard for people with buggies, sticks, wheelchairs and mobility scooters.

They break up kerb stones, destroy grass, trees and churn up mud.

A decent environment helps enormously to improve a sense of community and wellbeing.

Somehow we have to work out a fair way of providing space for all of us, car owners, children in buggies and the growing number of people with disabilities.

Our district is becoming a giant, ugly car park and before long our politicians will have to take some bold and possibly unpopular decisions. Sue Goodrum Gorrell Road, Whitstable parliament is a toothless sham.

By contrast, what I perceive is that many younger voters know almost nothing about the EU and its workings.

They’ve grown up with it and it is the world they know.

Us older voters remember a world where we controlled our own lives through a government that we could remove at the next general election. Just how would we remove an EU commissioner?

As to a seat at the table to influence things, politicians have been saying that for years but it hasn’t resulted in the EU holding back on its determination to create a United States of Europe with an elected president no doubt.

In 1975, as an idealistic 26-year-old, I campaigned for a united Europe.

The Europe we got is not what I campaigned for and I suppose it was naïve of me to imagine that national politicians could ever do anything other than put their own voters first.

The EU is the story of all empires, eventually they all fall apart under the weight of their own contradictions. Fortunately we won’t be in it when it does.

We won’t be able to avoid some impact when it collapses, but if we diversify our economy outside the EU we can at least minimise the impact. Bob Britnell Orchard Close, Canterbury would be damaged beyond repair going forward because of Apple’s desperate desire for more and more money.

I cared about the lack of affordable housing, of damage to the environment and global warming and polar bears and penguins.

I cared about the fat cats in the government who appear to think families can take a £6,000 loss of annual income in their stride which they themselves simply would not do.

I cared about the onslaught of political correctness.

I cared about OAPS, the NHS, the ambulance and fire service trying to do a job without money and the population who for some reason seem to think that violence against them is okay.

But not anymore. Call it an epiphany sitting there in Norfolk on a boat with the dreadful Eastenders resonating around me.

I realised that, apart from my family and one or two close friends I simply do not, and will not, care anymore.

They can do what they like. At the ripe old age of 75 nothing can affect me anymore.

I now consider myself free, able to write more novels and care about the family but sure in the knowledge that nothing else is going to bother me. Peter Dodds Preston Parade, Seasalter