Gove puts EU in their place

WELL done Michael Gove for his awesome round of interviews over the weekend before last.

Whilst Boris Johnson and Matthew Hancock had a well earned rest, Mr Gove was in tip top form and absolutely right to stand up to the stubborn EU in regards to Britain potentially leaving without a deal and equally right to stand up to a similar bureaucratic institution in the form of Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.

You really would think that a man with ministerial experience like Mr Burnham would at least understand how lives are being put at risk by people not obeying social distancing rules as was yet again so obvious over the weekend yet this man behaves like a cross between a spoilt little public schoolboy still harbouring a silver spoon in his mouth and a left wing union baron intentionally blocking a picket line.

The fact that people were so openly disobeying lockdown advice proves what a laughing stock the Labour Party are with their petty political point scoring in the midst of a pandemic.

People need to get behind our leaders in our time of an international pandemic.

What’s more, I call upon anyone who is a part of the Christian faith like me to obey the Bible by praying for our leaders, our law enforcers, and all of the fantastic people on the front line including experts like chief medical officer Chris Whitty and his deputy, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam who are also doing a magnificent job.

Geoffrey Brooking PARBOLD MADNESS

I WAS horrified to hear that the Parbold Hill landfill application has been approved.

After the application was first rejected, a lady county councillor suggested an amendment to install traffic lights on the hill.

The project was then approved by one vote.

Apart from the ruination of a well loved beauty spot, which is one of the best in Lancashire, I am appalled to think of the dangers associated with such an undertaking.

The danger of heavy traffic slowing down to turn on to the site must be evident to anyone who knows Parbold Hill, and to add traffic lights would be little short of madness.

Traffic stopped on the steep slope ascending on the other side of the road and vehicles stopped on the top of the hill on the side of the landfill, must present a grave danger to anyone with any common sense at all.

This councillor is obviously not aware of the volume of traffic connecting to the M6 and major roads on both sides of the hill.

The popular restaurant on top of the hill right opposite the proposed landfill site has a large car park where vehicles moving in and out would cause congestion with the traffic held up by or turning into the landfill site and the restaurant would inevitably lose custom by being so close to the operation.

Who, with any sense of responsibility to the community and visitors, would agree with the land being raised by seven metres, and consequently obscuring the view of much of the Douglas Valley?

I understand the decision makers admitted not knowing the area of Parbold Hill. Considering the number of objections from many sources, including various parish councils, West Lancashire Borough Council, The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, Lancashire’s own consultants and hundreds of individual objectors, one wonders what crazy forces are at work to even contemplate allowing such a project to go ahead.

Who are these people in favour of supporting the application in spite of all the official evidence to the contrary? What price democracy?

If this goes ahead, I predict there will be accidents as well as more air pollution and the biggest traffic problem in Lancashire.

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