VALLEYS OF DEPRESSION

Amy, via email

Fiona, is

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the Tory Government’s promise to get the homeless off our streets by 2027 just all spin and no substance? Or do they hope if they leave it long enough a lot will have died from hunger or hypothermia, or charities will step in to do the job so they don’t have to put their hands in their pockets?

Stuart Slinn Chesterfield, Derbys

Beautiful Wales is, for me, not as the Welsh national anthem states, Land of My Fathers, but Land of My Mother. And home to some of the most humble people in the British Isles. “There we are then” was a phrase my mum often used in an argument as she surrendered her views in exchange for peace and went off to the kitchen to make “a nice cup of tea” rather than try to make herself heard.

As a nation, the Welsh don’t often pipe up. Ironically though, Wales was the country that shouted loudest in the Brexit referendum, heavily voting to leave, despite receiving substantial funding from Europe – around £245million more than it pays into the EU. The M4, main route into Wales and therefore a driver of business, wouldn’t have been a goer if it wasn’t for European cash. Sadly the inevitable consequences of our exit from the EU are starting to be felt in the UK’s smallest country. The NHS is on its knees and desperately in need of the overseas staff who’ve ceased to come or have left due to Brexit. The same is true of foreign students, whose cash Welsh universities depend on. Wales is already being hit hard by the lies it believed. It could really do with that fictitious £350 million per week promised by Farage and Johnson.