Letters - Wednesday November 4 2020

Action needed on speeding drivers
See letter from Alison Wadsworth, from Thornton CleveleysSee letter from Alison Wadsworth, from Thornton Cleveleys
See letter from Alison Wadsworth, from Thornton Cleveleys

Is it not time that something is done to stop drivers exceeding speed limits on roads in the Blackpool, Cleveleys and Fleetwood areas?

On October 25, our little cat Fifi was tragically killed by a vehicle on Fleetwood Road North, Thornton Cleveleys, just near Lidl.

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Over a number of years, we have observed many vehicles exceeding the 30-mph speed limit along both Fleetwood Road North and Kelso Avenue, which have the tramway running between them.

Many motorists drive along these roads as if they were on a dual carriageway. I have seen cars with noisy exhausts actually racing between the Anchorsholme Lane and Victoria Road traffic lights, well in excess of 30 mph. These drivers cannot possibly be in control of their vehicles.

There is also a serious danger that the victim might not be “just” a cat, but an elderly person or a child. Many people visit Lidl, then cross the road at the Anchorsholme Lane crossing, where the timing of the traffic lights cannot be relied upon to ensure a safe crossing for pedestrians.

Alison Wadsworth

Thornton Cleveleys

Lockdown

Sad times for divided nation

We live in sad times where the nation is divided, not over Brexit this time but over Covid. In one corner we have those saying lockdown doesn’t work and in the other we have pro-lockdowners who are sometimes blaming a rise in cases on those who do not comply with the regulations. I believe the evidence shows the former camp to be correct.

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Lockdown

There is no middle way with Covid-19

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The track record of Boris Johnson and his government in tackling the pandemic has been appalling. We are now stuck with a four-week national lockdown that, given sharper action taken earlier, might have been unnecessary now.

England could have locked down in late February or early March (all the signs were there) but lockdown was delayed until March 23, almost certainly resulting in 20,000 more deaths than would have been the case if the same action had been taken three weeks earlier.

The Government has sought to balance the needs of industry and commerce on the one hand, and public health on the other. But there is no trade off – no “middle way”.

In late September the SAGE advisers recommended five courses of action. In an attempt to keep the economy going, and placate Tory backbench MPs, the Cabinet chose to enact just one of the five.

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If all five had been pursued immediately, and with vigour, we would have been in a far better place than we are now. Increasingly the public are twigging – this Government is an incompetent disgrace.

John Cole

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Lockdown

Start planning online lessons

Another lockdown with schools, colleges and universities allowed to stay open.

Already the bleats have started about children not being able to have lessons online if schools have to close because they don’t have access to the internet. Many children do, and those who don’t should be regarded as vulnerable and attend school, along with those of key workers and others, assessed as needing continuous education.

Teachers should start planning online lessons now as further measures to stop the spread of the virus are on the cards.

Hilary Andrews

via email

Lockdown

Scientists are ruining everything

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The scientists are ruining just about everything. They are ruining people’s lives and their livelihoods, without it affecting their financial situation in any way whatsoever.

They haven’t the sense they were born with. They have had it all educated out of them.

It isn’t the “ordinary” working population who pay their taxes who have ruined this planet, it is those who think that they know everything there is to know about everything. Nature included.

All they are experts at is making a fortune for themselves, whilst ruining everything else for others.

Phyllis Capstick

via email

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