YOUR LETTERS - 20th December 2019

Where’s the money?

All we hear about these days is austerity, and that there is no money for public services; and how Brexit is going to bring us even more financial woes. Yet, the answer to all our financial problems is staring us in the face. In 2017, then Prime Minister Theresa May famously said that we don’t have “a magic money tree that we can shake”. Surely the solution is to get one of these trees!

I think it is shocking that the leaders of our country would go on record to declare the existence of such a magical tree and yet make no effort to obtain one! This is Britain! We used to rule the world, and if we wanted something, we went and took it! Well, we want one of these magic money trees, so lets bally well go out and get one. I imagine they grow somewhere mystical, like Peru, or Stonehenge.

Dave Sceptic
Bispham

Political correctness has gone mad

I was quite dismayed to read that Blackpool Council are adapting a number of roads so that they are accessible to “trans only”. Why do ‘trans’ need their own road lanes? Why can’t they share the roads with everybody else? It doesn’t matter that I’ve clearly misread the word “trams”, this is political correctness gone mad and it has to stop.

Brigadier General Susan Gammon (retired)
Cleveleys

Acts of random kindness

I just wanted to tell everybody about my wonderful grandson who is so moved by the plight of Blackpool’s homeless he is donating his entire month’s pocket money (£1) to them. He will, of course, be deducting notional tax and national insurance from it, leaving them with about 64 pence, but this will help teach them the value of work and also leave him with a bit left over for sweets. I appreciate that 64p isn’t very much and probably won’t go very far, but the important thing is that my grandson gets his picture in the paper and everybody talks about how altruistic he is.

Barbara Barbour-Baron
Lytham

NHS In Crisis

Yesterday my dentist asked me if I wanted a “white filling”. Well, I nearly blew up in his face, I’d never heard such racist twaddle in all my life. If dentists offer special fillings for whites, no wonder the NHS is in crisis.

Richard Stick
Little Thornton

Taxi Trouble

I was shocked to read that Blackpool Council has had to impose tough sanctions on taxi drivers due to a number of incidents involving theft and dishonesty in the town. You wouldn’t have got this sort of thing under the management of Charlie Hawkins, the taxi company owner portrayed by the late, great Sid James in Carry On Cabby (1963). Taxi drivers should take more pride in their work, and if possible, I would like to see something along the lines of ‘Glam Cabs’, which had taxis driven by glamourous young women. Please Blackpool Council, make it happen.

Barry
Bispham