More authoritative government needed

Sir, – Bob Thompson’s letter (Frightened to speak lest it cause offence, Courier, April 20) brings focus to the problems afflicting our society.

Our current generation of “yoof ” seem to have lost all respect for authority and the need for social cohesion in order for the wellbeing of our people to prosper.

We seem to be submerged in adulation for “Americanisms” such as “woke”.

In my view it is simply an expression associated with intolerance and the mistaken idea that society can prosper without adherence to social rules in any needed redress of minority disenfranchisement.

Rudeness prevails in social communication when there are self-interested pressure groups parading their narrow opinions and disallowing

anyone to disagree with them.

If some of our citizens feel disenfranchised, then first line of redress should be our MPS.

A further affliction is the ingress of big business into every aspect of life.

This leads to cronyism, corruption, and further demolition of the standards of decency that gave rise to world respect for British values.

It gets to a point where the people who should be society’s role models for adherence to established moral standards succumb to the temptations of personal enrichment and personality marketing.

We now have the proposed destruction of football tradition in this country, the architects of which are the foreign owners of major UK clubs, funded by tens of billions of dollars by American investment banks.

Is it reasonable to pay star footballers millions of pounds, and to recover these absurd

expenses by ignoring the importance of fan support and instead, striking short-term financial deals with competing media platforms?

The question is how to recover society from the slippery slope down which it is sliding, and the answer would seem to be a more authoritative form of governance with less faux division, and a hard look at the impact of foreign-owned big business on our younger, impressionable, generation. Derek Farmer. Knightsward Farm, Anstruther.