Moving forward

Running a country is very basic really. Protect the country from external threats. Protect the country from internal threats. Gradually improve the standard of living and health for everyone.

Instead, what we have managed to do over the last four decades is to arrive today in a place where it is obvious that none of these basic requirements have been achieved.

The last Prime Minister with any idea of what the country needed was the one that introduced privatisation and the general public to the idea of shared ownership. Both of these initiatives if encouraged and protected would have secured a better country for us all.

Instead, thanks to following governments allowing strategic entities such as Water, Energy and wealth creating industry to be sold off or allowed to be located overseas this country is left bare with the worst of all scenario, no control and even worse, wealth that could and should have been kept in this country being siphoned off to improve lives in other countries.

It seems obvious that any change in government will not rectify the basic problems within our country I feel ashamed that the country that we leave for our children is basically broke and facing decades of penury.

Of course, as a voter in a democratic country we should have been able to change the trajectory of the country but the recent referendum result in Ireland should demonstrate to us that the idea the UK is a democracy is basically a sham.

We can no more influence decision making of the elite than fly. It’s a fact that we voters should consider and decide where we want togo from here.

T Lewis Coylton, Ayrshire