Tram fares should be lowered for teenagers
TIME and again I have witnessed teenagers being caught at Manchester Victoria by Metro staff for travelling without a ticket and I feel pity for these youngsters.
The reason why so many teenagers are pulled for ticket dodging is due to their low spending power. The minimum wage today for 16 to 17 years old is £4.05.
So for the average journey to the city centre it is almost an hour’s pay. Can one imagine a charge of nearly £7 for an adult of 25 years and older! I say this because it would be the case today for those workers aged 25 years and above due to the minimum wage for this age group being £7.60.
Metro should rethink their fares for youngsters. Austin Stonham, Monsall
Fury over Tyson return
I NOTE that Tyson Fury is once again hoping to return to boxing a sport that he said previously he hated and was only interested in the money part of the sport.
In my opinion and in particular the way he has conducted himself only brings boxing into repute, and as for being a true boxer in his world title fight he spent all his time in ducking and diving, spoiling and frustrating his opponent. If any true boxer was happy with these tactics I wasn’t.
We can do without the likes of Tyson for his behaviour leaves a lot to be desired not only in the ring but outside also. It’s all to do with money. Edwin King, Marple Bridge
The end of democracy
COULD there have been a more pitiful site than the Prime Minister Theresa May sulking off to Brussels in the small hours of Friday morning, summoned by the unelected EU bureaucrats to deliver Britain’s surrender of its own sovereignty?
Juncker took great pleasure in rubbing in the surrender and Mayday May took it on the chin.
Make no mistake about it, we have witnessed the beginning of the end of democracy in this country. If the democratic will of the people can be ignored by our dull grey technocratic, EU-loving elites how can change be effected in a democratic form?
Brexit was a brilliant two fingers to the elites and a call for a new way of doing things, with a demand for control of our own affairs for a renewal of democracy.
Theresa May and the political class have surrendered every position to the EU. A woman who is a remainer to the core, she was never going to be the person to lead us out of the EU.
As we move to trade negotiations the government will accept whatever the Brussels autocracy demands of us. Expect Project Fear to continue. Expect to hear from people willing to destroy this country economically, politically, and as a united country, if they don’t get their way.
We will end up having to recognise the single market, the customs union, free movement and ECJ jurisdiction. Why not throw the towel in an accept the Euro as a final act of our submission?
I would just like to ask what is so great about the EU?
We have seen how the EU elites punish countries that dare to stand up for their own interests. Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain’s economies punished with mass unemployment, savage cuts to state spending which is, in a word, enforced austerity.
Historically, the elites have always had contempt for the mass of the people. Even in classical Greece where it all started, Plato hated Athenian democracy. That ordinary people could have a say in exercising power was for him a mad idea. Plato thought that an educated elite (experts) should rule a country. How little times have changed. It’s high time that we, the public, took back control. Brendan Glynn, Denton
Greenhouse gases will rise
ARGUMENTS about CO2 levels in the atmosphere are completely pointless because really nobody is listening.
So long as animals and people continue to breathe and so long as humans demand greater economic growth, greenhouse gases will increase. We demand more land and air travel, factory farmed food, heating, lighting, cooling and industrial production of all kinds. So even if the human production of carbon dioxide were stable production of carbon dioxide would never cease to increase. Let’s face it, if rising global temperatures doesn’t kill off the human race in the next mass extinction, then constant fighting over increasingly scarce natural resources will do so. J M Johnson, Stockport