BREXIT BORED GAME?

CONGESTION IS FAR WORSE

I HAVE, over the past 18 months, been in contact with Lancashire county council concerning the issue of traffic congestion in the Clayton-le-Moors area, especially at the Hare and Hounds junction.

This junction, and its feeder roads, has for a long time suffered from dreadful normal daily and peak time traffic congestion.

However, more recently, the problem has been made far worse, caused by the increase in the very large HGVs using the junction and Whalley Road to get to Whinney Hill tip.

The large increase in numbers of these trucks is because since March 2017 all of Blackpool and Fylde landfill waste is coming to Whinney Hill tip and this is not a short term problem.

Suez have a contract to use the Whinney Hill site until 2025 and more recently have permission to use the next door Park Royal site until 2042.

I would also like to support the views of Coun Miles Parkinson concerning the proposed second bus lane (Political column, November 30).

I raised this issue with LCC and was told in June of this year that ‘the second bus lane will not be introduced without formal consultation with those affected’.

Have people been consulted in the past six months?

I also asked whether a study had been carried out to see if the first phase bus lane had increased passenger numbers significantly and reduced bus travel times.

I received no response. Paul Hallam Clayton-le-Moors I WOULD like to announce the launch of a new board game.

This is a strategy game called “Brexit” the board game (although perhaps that should read b-o-r-e-d game).

The layout – based loosely on Monopoly – includes 27 squares, each with the flag of an EU member.

The four corner squares are labelled as follows: get out of the EU free; do not pass go do not collect £350 million; the third square is for “utilities” (most owned anyway by EU member countries); and the fourth is the Donald Trump WTO square.

There are two packs of cards in the centre part. These will either be Chance or No Chance cards, or alternatively ‘deal or no deal’ depending on copyright issues. The other pack involve either payments or forfeits.

It is a game of four players who move round the board with their miniature forms.

Teresa May is the ‘cat’, Rees Mogg is of course the ‘top hat’ and Boris Johnson ‘the clown’, while Jean Claude Junker is ‘the grim reaper’.

Moving with a dice throw, the object is to make deals with all 27 other countries in the EU if you are the cat or land on the Trump square if you are one of the others. We were going to have an Angela Merkel square but she didn’t want to be involved. David Entwistle via email

I KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN

I FOUND myself agreeing with everything in AP Moxham’s excellent letter on Brexit (‘Brexit deal unknown’, Letters, November 30) until I reached the very last paragraph: “Nobody knows one way or another what will happen when we finally leave or not”.

Well, I definitely know what will happen if we are forced to remain.

We will continue to be ruled as we have been for decades by our unelected, corrupt, self-serving, unaccountable masters in the EU — backed up by our own civil servants who are all too eager to kowtow to their every diktat.

We will be hammered by punitive cash demands and other humiliating penalties in retribution for our presumption in wanting out, and as a warning to other member states that it doesn’t do to defy the despotic EU. Keith Ellel Rishton