South Wales Echo

Be patient with those doing 20 Rwanda is not a safe country

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I KNEW that it had to happen sooner or later. I have received a letter from GoSafe for exceeding the legal speed limit of 20mph (at 26mph).

Thankfully this is a warning letter and not a prosecutio­n so I must be grateful for that. I am concerned, however, that I find the introducti­on of the 20mph speed limit has caused me much confusion.

The speed limits change so frequently and are so inconsiste­nt that it is often difficult to be sure what the limit is on any particular stretch of road. The speed limit on some roads has been reduced unnecessar­ily. The sooner the limits are reviewed the better.

So please, if you are following a driver who is sticking to the 20mph limit please be patient. It could be me and I had been warned!

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IT seems that half of the letters received by this newspaper recently are about the “boats”, without mention of the extraordin­arily traumatise­d passengers on board.

Evidence is apparently unnecessar­y; emotions are sufficient to “prove” that the vast majority of the incomers are young single men who, rather than being accepted as the more likely bread-winners (rather than the wives and sisters back in the global south) are suspected of being career criminals or future terrorists.

Such attitudes support the recent census which showed that only 46% of UK adults claim to be Christian.

And the pie-in-the-sky “solution”, at a cost of £1.8m per person (UK Government figures), is to offload “them” as if “they” are human cargo.

Rwanda is not a safe country. The US has reported that Rwandan forces have attacked a refugee camp in neighbouri­ng Congo. Human Rights Watch reports that journalist­s and political opponents “disappear”.

Street kids and the unemployed are rounded up (especially when

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