I’m shocked to see your park ruined by rubbish
MANCHESTER down town is neat, tidy and very presentable – but not where we are staying as visitors.
I can’t get over the careless attitude of those that live around Debdale Park. There is garbage everywhere around a beautiful park and no one seems to care.
It’s really disappointing. Rubbish bins overflow and fast food containers litter the road.
There has to be a way to clean this up. The attitude seems to be that the council doesn’t care so the locals turn a blind eye and add to the mess. I expected more from an old city.
You have a nice park in a garbage dump. A tourist, via email
A powerful community
ALAN Crawford (M.E.N. Viewpoints,
August 20) suggests that voting in the EU referendum was equivalent to buying something in a shop.
It seems to me more like buying a pig in a poke as the question required only a yes or no answer, and the facts of EU membership were not explained.
When you buy something in a shop you usually know what it is for and what it is worth. The fact is that in the EU we are in a powerful community with our nearest neighbours and we have equal rights and responsibilities with them to create peace and prosperity.
The fact that we are in a community of more than five hundred million people, means that we benefit from the EU’s ability to negotiate and co-operate from a position of strength with countries much larger than Britain, such as the USA and Russia.
The EU is not the only ‘community’ that the UK is part of. We are in the United Nations, NATO, the G7 group of leading nations, The Paris Climate Change Accord – and in these we join with others in policies for human rights, trade and economic development and security.
This recognises that we are part of an imperfect world and that democratic co-operation is essential to combat climate change, pollution of the oceans, lands and world poverty. Sam Darby, Burnage
Time to stop grouse shoot
THE ‘Glorious Twelfth’ – or the ‘Inglorious Twelfth,’ as it’s often more appropriately referred to – marks the start of the annual red grouse shooting season, when socalled ‘sports people’ gear up to kill about half a million grouse.
No training or proof of experience is required to go grouse shooting, which means that many birds will be left to endure a lingering, painful death after being shot by inexperienced shooters.
It’s not just the grouse who suffer, either – vast numbers of animals such as foxes, stoats, squirrels, and weasels are also killed by shooters and gamekeepers to ‘protect’ the grouse just long enough for them to be shot.
Hawks, falcons, and owls have also been trapped, poisoned, and shot, causing large quantities of toxic lead shot to be discharged into the countryside.
Turning sentient beings into living targets for the perverted pleasure of gunning them down is detestable.
It’s time that we said ‘no more.’ Jennifer White, PETA
Depart to avoid chaos
ROD Slater is absolutely right, we have learned a lot in the last two years about the European Union
(People should have last word,
M.E.N. Viewpoints, August 18) – certainly far more than when we were conned into voting for a ‘Common Market’ in 1975, without knowing of the hidden agenda to create a political super-state.
As a major contributor to the EU budget, Britain is being treated more like a defeated enemy than a significant ally.
Since Mr Slater reminds MP Graham Stringer of his democratic duty, it would be sheer hypocrisy by Remainers to rely on the public to decide final outcomes when they ignore the first democratically elected decision, and zealously argued against entrusting the public with a referendum in the first place.
The public are not fooled that demands for a second referendum is a cynical ploy to drag out the process to weaken our resolve to gain independence.
And while the super-state project appears to be failing, an orderly British departure is urgently needed to avoid chaos. Bill Newham, Manchester