Letters - Thursday December 3 2020

Let’s ban MPs from pubs and restaurants
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I have just found out that our MP for the Fylde, Mark Menzies voted in favour of Tier 3 restrictions for his constituents, despite the clear evidence that the corana virus is on the decline in this area, and most of Lancashire.

Mr Menzies has kept a low profile during the pandemic, but has continued to support the government, his party, regardless of the harm being done to local businesses, especially pubs and restaurants.

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In my opinion, as a supporter of the Conservatives for nearly 50 years and a Fylde resident, Mr Menzies should be barred from all licensed premises in the Fylde.

He is not representing his constituents, but complicit with a government imposing unnecessary sanctions on residents.

I am absolutely livid about this.

Steve Woods

via email

MPs Scott Benton, Blackpool South; Mark Menzies, Fylde; Ben Wallace, Wyre and Preston North; voted in favour of the motion to continue the destruction of hotels,pubs, shops in their constituencies.

Remember this when they next have the brass neck to ask for your vote.

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I suggest you should consider voting for anyone other than the three main parties.

Bernard Greenwood

via email

Politics

It’s no pantomime for residents

Residents are quite rightly angered by Wyre Cabinet’s recent decision to keep Fleetwood and Poulton’s Leisure Centres and pools closed.

As one local resident wrote to me “there’s a real lack of creativity in getting these centres open”, and who can argue with that. With costs of £340,000 to reopen Thornton and Garstang’s facilities, for an additional £28,000 they could have reopened Fleetwood’s and Poulton’s as well.

At the 25 November Cabinet meeting, Conservative Councillors response to Labour’s valid arguments included a mixture of untruths, misrepresentation, twisting of the truth to suit their narrative, and blaming and insulting residents for the closure of facilities.

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It was though the pantomime season wasn’t cancelled after all with Conservative Councillor Bowen laughably claiming that my figures didn’t add up despite those figures actually being, errrmmmm, hers.

You couldn’t make it up; well actually they probably did. Rather than having their finger on the pulse, they had their finger in the air, guessing what the public’s ability and appetite to return to the centres would be, and using unsound usage figures to provide their case for re-opening only one pool, Garstang, which according to pantomime villain Coun Bowen’s report, is within a reasonable travelling distance for all residents. ‘Oh no its not’, cry the 70 per cent of Wyre’s population living in the urban west of the Borough.

This is no pantomime for residents though, it’s not remotely funny.

If the schoolchildren, who Wyre are stopping from learning to swim, were to write a report on the Cabinet’s performance, it would surely say “Must do better, need to be more creative”.

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We can only hope that in a few weeks Santa will have some creativity in his sack to pass to Wyre’s Cabinet, but if he hasn’t, perhaps Santa will just have to give them the sack.

Coun Rob Fail

Leader of Wyre Group Of Labour Councillors

Virus

Let’s just get behind the powers that be

We continue to learn of people continuing to moan and groan about being in the wrong tier and missing Christmas. For once, this should not matter. What we all need to do is get behind the Government, scientists and medical experts doing the best they can to get us back to a safe and near-normal life.

Barry Foster

via email

Virus

No end until we get virus vaccine?

I can see no end to the pandemic until we get an effective vaccine rolled out to all who are willing to be vaccinated. The behaviour of some of the more idiotic students and others, as well as the thousands of protesters that we seem to have spawned, make the tier system almost unworkable.

The lack of enforcement also hinders its effectiveness.

Peter Hyde

via email