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Have you been fuming over the England v India second test? Join the debate by emailing letters@westerndailypress.co.uk and including your name and address
Ever since we left we have been bombarded with propaganda from the Remainers about how well off we were and we would never be able to stand on our own feet without the mighty EU.
Thank heavens that this country had the foresight to make plans well in advance, instead of prevaricating about whether to order enough vaccines to speed the defeat of this evil disease. If we were still shackled by rules and regulations we would never have been well on the way to protecting the elderly in the way that we are now doing. No wonder other countries still left in the EU are now considering following our lead and getting out.
Perhaps the last country to leave will kindly switch off the lights.
M J Radnedge
Bristol and doctors, etc. Bad mistakes were made.
We saw the Government’s main adviser Dominic Cummings drive to Barnard Castle in breach of lockdown rules “to test my eyesight”. Pull the other one!
The Government’s Eat Out to
Help Out scheme sounded good but actually helped spread the virus.
Ten to 15% of new infections arose because of this. Boris Johnson said we were out of the woods but he was badly wrong. The virus changed, as experts had always said it would, and we had the new versions.
In addition to a national public inquiry, we need a local one for Bristol, too. Over 450 people have died in Bristol from the virus, with countless more harmed by it. That is many times the number killed and injured at Grenfell.
Bristol and all other areas should have their own public inquiries, so that we, the public, can know the truth of this event. The Government has nothing to hide from public inquiries if it has done all it could.
The public deserve the full truth of the UK’s pandemic response to come out into the open. We owe this to the victims, and also to reveal the quiet heroism of our NHS staff and the patient excellence of our local scientists.
John Smith
Bristol masts to hold the turbine blades.
Well, would it not be sensible to utilise these masts also for the production of tidal hydro power? Surely it’s not beyond our engineering skill to attach a tidal turbine to each mast? The wiring is already there for the wind turbine so this would greatly increase the output from these ‘farms’.
After all, in windy conditions such as we have recently had, the wind turbines get switched off but the hydro turbines would continue to produce electricity every day of the year. Two sources of power for the price of one mast.
Also, if each ‘farm’ was made a marine conservation area, there would be places of safety among the masts for young fish and other sea creatures to grow and mature, which would also help our fishermen.
Just a thought!
Kate Templeton Newton Abbot, Devon