Voters will have the last word

Sir, – The causes of the demise of the town centre since the 1960s has been well documented.

The rise in car usage and supermarkets with car parking opening off the main shopping streets was the start of the process of closures of local businesses. Charity shops then benefited from low or free rental of the empty properties.

Meanwhile, the increased use of online shopping further increased the pressure on locally-owned shops.

A wise policy to try to counter balance the impact of the supermarkets and encourage shoppers to shop locally was to offer free parking.

Angus Council is neither helping local shops, nor being very wise by imposing parking fees.

If this short-sighted policy results in the further loss of locally owned and run shops in the town centres of Angus we will know who is to blame and hopefully use the only recourse we have available to us – the vote.

Brian Batson. Lour Road, Forfar. again by the Eurocrats. The sight of her begging EU leaders to give her a bone to throw to get her EU “deal” through parliament was gut wrenching.

All throughout the Brexit withdrawal the Eurocrats have been unyielding. They would not even give May a cosmetic fig leaf.

After that she then faced an attempt to remove her from office by the craven ruthless Brexiteer oddballs. Even though she saw off the challenge; this too can only be described as a pyrrhic victory. She lumbers on in the knowledge that one third of her parliamentary party don’t want her in position.

She has postponed the vote on the Brexit deal, hoping circumstances will change and she can save her skin. May is on borrowed time – a political zombie.

Jeremy Corbyn too seems to be competing with May for levels of incompetence.

He could have called a confidence vote which, even if May had won would have damaged her further. Instead Corbyn thinks he can change the country with dreams and talk.

The only “solution” will be for May to extend the withdrawal deadline. The Eurocrats will be amenable to this as it will simply put the UK in an even bigger hole.

The EU have sought from the start to make Brexit as painful as