BAE deserves aid
BAE is to shed 2,000 jobs due to a temporary downturn in orders for the Typhoon aircraft. When demand returns, they will therefore be hard pushed to resume production. To support the wages of those skilled workers for one year at £30,000 a year each would cost £60 million. For five years, £300m.
Yet we spend £13 billion a year on foreign aid, much of which gets lost on the way, so never achieves its intended purpose. In fact it is worse than that. We borrow the £13 billion in the first place, as we run a deficit every year.
BAE is a vital export industry, and our own armed forces are being asked to make further cuts. Where is our sense of priorities?
MALCOLM PARKIN
If people want more than two children then they must not expect the taxpayer to foot the bill and subsidise their lifestyle. It should be pointed out that those with more than two children now will continue to receive benefits for all those children, but not any additional ones. Those complaining never mention this.
Those against the two-child cap tried to muddy the waters by asking what would happen if a third child was born because of rape.
If rape is proved then of course benefits for that child must be allowed.
CLARK CROSS Springfield Road, Linlithgow
hand, they too are being religious.
This is more than a peripheral debate. Rationalism is the curse of modern society. In the USA and UK we have Trump characters paraded as “strong and stable”. Rationalism promotes
a tendency to be in denial about the unreasonableness of false promises and unlikely conspiracy theories. People’s hearts have been hardened, and rationalism prevents us seing the creaping illness.
ANDREW VASS
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Steuart Campbell belittles faith. Christian Faith is relational, having subject and object. It has knowledge and content. It is rational and affective. It has testimony and a multiplicity of corroboration. Qualitative analysis offers much evidence for any fair-minded person.
(REV DR) ROBERT ANDERSON