Cause of potholes is closer to home
The latest epistle from George K McMillan (‘We will be well rid of EU regulations’, March 16) takes that gentleman’s ramblings to a new high.
Somehow the EU is to blame for potholes, all caused by the heavy lorries sanctioned by that august body and absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the winter’s snow and frost.
Not sure about the lofty heights of Kinnoull Hill but I would have thought that behemoth delivery lorries would have been thin on the ground up there, as they are indeed at the Western Edge, yet surprisingly enough there is an outbreak of potholes around where I live.
I wonder just how many supermarket delivery lorries have got themselves lost and ended up on the Western Edge and thus by Mr McMillan’s strange logic created lots of potholes.
Mr McMillan is a selfappointed champion of all that he considers not right in the world.
Surely it is now time for him to take to task the body which has failed significantly to deal with Perth’s outbreak of potholes, to wit the Tory-run council who either care not one jot about a plethora of potholes or alternatively, indeed far more likely, also exhibit a rare level of incompetence if the increasing crop of untreated potholes is a basis on which to make such a judgement.
As we exit the EU, applying Mr McMillan’s yardstick, will it mean that delivery lorries shrink and what if supermarkets find their stocks in short supply as a result?
Will that mean that Mr McMillan will shortly be having a rant in the pages of the PA about food shortages? Allister Band, Perth
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