YOU were kind enough to publish a letter by me asking whether Foresters were mugs in accepting indefensibly high road tolls across the Severn and levels of housing likely to destroy the very character of Lydney. I asked (perhaps unkindly) whether Foresters were mugs.
Now, on the front page of The Times today (February 12, 2009) we have the latest employment and unemployment figures for 2008.
Jobs for British workers down by 234,000 to 27 million; jobs for foreign workers up 175,000 to 2.4 million; unemployment up to 1.97 million.
Perhaps you yourself can find adequate words to describe this national death-wish. It is a madness and folly virtually unparalleled in human history. Why do British politicians hate the British so much? Is it just a new and virulent form of the class war? Perhaps a reading of 'Hard Times' by Charles Dickens will help to put your financial woes in perspective. – Gerald Morgan (Lydbrook School; English Parliamentary Party).