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Letter of the week: Reform’s recycled rubbish
Dear Editor
I have had it with Reform.
At this rate, if they win the next election, it will just be another useless Conservative government in power. Accepting any waif, stray and chancer into the Reform Party is just pathetic.
We want a revolution in the corridors of power, not the same old rubbish being recycled yet again.
Robert Worms
Totnes, Devon
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A life snuffed out for no good reason
Dear Editor
The story about the woman who had an abortion because of climate anxiety is truly shocking because of the life that was snuffed out for no good reason and the mental anguish of the indoctrinated woman.
How many other women have made the same decision and are now suffering similar guilt?
How many people have been denied the chance to exist because women of reproductive age have joined the birth strike movement and decided to remain childless because they believe it’s best for the planet and/or don’t want to bring children into a world they believe is doomed?
This will be of no concern to the eco zealots as they believe that humans are a curse on the planet and, in their opinion, the fewer people the better.
Matt Dalby
Inverness
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A case for leaving the ECHR
Dear Editor
Shahidul Haque, a Bangladeshi migrant, moved into a single room flat in David Smith Court, a complex in Reading reserved for residents over the age of 55, in July 2024.
Five months later he secretly moved his wife and two of his nine children into the flat This was against the rules and the officials at Southern Housing have taken him to Reading County Court to have the family evicted. The other elderly residents have repeatedly complained of noise and anti-social behaviour by the family.
Now Haque is arguing through his taxpayer-funded lawyers that evicting his family from the flat would breach his human rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) which protects the right to a family life. The UK should have left the ECHR years ago and then the UK could have quickly deported this man and his family and the tens-of-thousands of migrant criminals and those migrants who contribute nothing to the UK but milk the welfare system for £millions no make that £billions.
Clark Cross
Linlithgow
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Eco-tourism may do more harm than CO2
Dear Editor
Much is made of the thinning Arctic sea ice but although carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise, contrary to expectations ice depletion has slowed over the past 20 years. In Antarctica, according to NASA observations prior to 2014, sea ice increased by 1 per cent per decade followed by a significant decline. Opinion is divided between natural and human causal factors. Apart from a significant localised loss of ice mass in Western Antarctica due a combination of changes in ocean currents and subglacial volcanic activity, ice is accumulating on the rest of the continent.
Moving to the low-lying Maldives group of islands in the Indian Ocean, the dire warnings about their disappearance due to sea level rise, currently at around 2.5 mm per year, have failed to come true. Their projected demise has now been extended to 2050. Detailed studies of such coral islands, renowned for their ever-changing structure, have revealed that although 11.4 per cent have indeed contracted, 15.5 per cent have increased in size while 73.1 per cent have remained stable. Here the ever-opportunistic, expansionist Republic of China has ‘loaned’ $374million and provided engineering expertise to expand and modernise Velana International Airport to handle a projected five-fold increase in tourist numbers to 7.5million. This would hardly be appropriate for islands destined to disappear beneath the waves.
We are led to believe that two-thirds of the world’s population view anthropogenic global warming (AGW) as a major threat to such locations. A majority of visitors to these destinations have pro-environmental attitudes and yet they continue to add to the emissions that they deplore so that they can appreciate such wonders before they disappear. How many of the 124,000 thousand tourists who visit Antarctica every year pause to consider the unintended consequences of their presence? They disturb wildlife and convey potentially harmful spores, microbes, seeds and insects ashore, incrementally endangering the unique ecosystem. Cruise liner diesel engines consume up to 180 tons of marine gas oil per day emitting some 438,000 tons of CO2 equivalent per year. It is estimated that a single tourist can cause the melting of up to 100 tons of snow.
The number of visitors to all the world’s coral atolls is a staggering 70million a year, generating 162million tons of CO2 equivalent per year. While they provide billions of welcome revenue they are simultaneously causing widespread damage to the ecosystems due to physical damage of coral, pollution runoff, sedimentation, overfishing and coastal developments.
There are examples when eco-tourism can convey benefits. However it is questionable whether the damage caused to these fragile ecosystems can be justified. The highly complex range of natural forces that have always determined the climate are inexplicably ignored and downplayed to be replaced with the idealistic hypothesis of AGW.
Neil J Bryce
Kelso
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The Brexit vote was not ‘close’
Dear Editor,
It infuriates me to listen to the likes of former Labour MP Bill Rammell (on GB News) dismissing the referendum results on Brexit as ‘close’.
One only has to look at a map to realise that the remainers were the anti-British (SNP!) Scots, the sheltered loony left wing pseudo-intellectuals, (from Cambridge, Islington etc), immigrant communities and those of immigrant descent.
Almost to a man/woman, patriotic, red-blooded white ethnic English people voted to leave!
Paul Davies
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Starmer’s ‘Dad’s Army’ plan is unrealistic
Dear Editor
The Telegraph reports that ex-servicemen may be driven out of retirement to support the PM’s ‘coalition of the willing’ and the EU’s expansionist ambitions.
That is not a good message for would-be servicemen, who might have expected to retire in peace. Added to that, they may run the risk of prosecution for actions taken years past in the heat of battle.
It is totally unrealistic and the PM needs to think very carefully about adding UK blood to the rising toll of a million plus dead or injured, in support of a country – that was not and is not a Nato member – when we are nowhere near ready for war.
Perhaps he could let us know his budget in blood and iron.
Roger J Arthur
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Time for action on Iran’s brutal Revolutionary Guard
Dear Editor
For decades our schools have supposedly taught every child about the evils of fascism, and yet when we are confronted with it – silence.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij which have murdered thousands of protesters and brutalised vastly more in the last few weeks are Iran’s equivalents of the Third Reich’s SS and SA.
The IRGC exists to guarantee the survival of the regime and that the will of the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei is carried out. It is effectively a state within a state controlling large parts of Iran’s economy. It is also deeply involved in terrorism not just in the Middle East but also in Europe, in Britain and even as far away as Argentina.
We should make every effort to oppose Iran’s Islamo-fascist regime today, just as we did those of Hitler and Mussolini in the past. A good start would be for the government to formally recognise the IRGC as the terrorist organisation that it is.
Otto Inglis
Fife
