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Twisting my words

I WRITE in response to the letter from Des Morgan published in the Evening Advertiser on July 25, 2016.

Yet again Mr Morgan has twisted my words, relating to the risk of job losses following the referendum, out of all recognition with his repeated failure to quote my full wording relating to this issue and has once again chosen to quote just a very small section of what I wrote.

The full comment that I made in my letter of June 11 is as follows: “I do feel it is correct to point out that every one of the 3.5 million British jobs involved with producing the goods and services we export to the EU would be at risk if we quit.”

My statement does not suggest that all 3.5 million jobs would be lost, for the simple reason that they would not.

However, even the most sceptical must admit some jobs, possibly even a substantial number, will be lost if we were to quit the EU, and we have no way of identifying in advance which of those 3.5 million jobs would go.

The suggestion my claim is false does not hold any water as every one of those 3.5 million jobs could be lost and are therefore at risk. As I pointed out in my letter of July 20 this risk has now come to fruition as people have lost their jobs.

In his next paragraph he claims that I suggested in my letter of the July 20 that “17 million Leave voters acted naively”. I made no such suggestion. My exact words were “it is obvious that many people based their decision regarding which way to vote upon those lies”.

One can only guess at why Mr Morgan misinteprates my views in such a manner.

The Leave campaign has been widely recognised as being deceitful, disingenuous and dishonest. He also gave another correspondent a berating in a letter of his published underneath my letter of the 20th July.

In that letter Mr Morgan accuses the correspondent of “living in a different world to the rest of the population if he truly believes the dangers of Brexit were not made clear prior to the June 23 vote”. He then goes on to detail the very risks that he has criticised me for listing in the past as both scaremongering and dishonest and also now, in his latest letter, chooses to refer to as “apocalyptic scenarios presented by the Remain camp have not occurred and actually never will”.

Mr Morgan – your attempt to have it both ways has backfired!

This is exactly what I and many others have been complaining about with relation to the Leave campaign for some considerable time now, and it is exactly the reason why so many people are now questioning the validity of the result.

What is more, the result is not just being questioned by the 48 per cent that voted to remain, but also by many who voted to leave as they are now beginning to realise the extent of the deceit and dishonesty perpetrated upon the British public by the Leave campaign.

Mr Morgan you have been found out. Please stop misrepresenting other people’s views!

ADAM POOLE

Savill Crescent, Wroughton

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Gordon is a genius

In the new Chancellor’s first statement on the economy he said, Britain’s decision to leave the EU has led to a dramatic deterioration in economic activity not seen since the aftermath of the financial crisis.

The aftermath of the financial crisis saw a short boom in the economy. After the first two quarters of 2010 there was an annualised growth of 3.1% and after three quarters 4%, as I have reported many times in these pages. When the Conservative-led coalition took power the challenge posed by the credit crunch had already been met, the economy was growing, again the level of public debt was manageable whatever crisis the coalition had to meet was of their own making. How many times have, in letters to this paper, mentioned the “Myth” that the Tories are better with the economy than Labour?

Looking at the mess the economy has been in for the last six years and now, if you still believe that you’re cuckoo! Oh to be back in the Goldilocks economy of the noughties! When Britain had the best economy in the world, said the Confederation of British Industry, a nice economy, more inflationary, continuous expansion, said the Governor of the Bank of England. Des Morgan said Gordon Brown, despite being an academic intellectual and the proud possessor of a PHD ,he was no economist and his financial knowledge wasn’t good either. Gordon was a prolific reader so he would certainly have read Robert Skidensky’s three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, what more does one want? As for finance, a post he held for 10 years was the Chairmanship of The International Monetary and Finance Committee. He has recently been appointed to the advisory panel of the Global investment firm PIMCO! The man’s a genius.

M J WARNER

Groundwell Road, Swindon

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Joys of technology

SOMETIMES you realise that even though you are young at heart, that time is catching up with you. I decided to make one of my rare visits into the town centre and buy myself and my youngest son two up-to-date mobile phones. I sent my old mobile into the British Museum .They assure me it will be a big attraction.

When I got back home I thought this will be a piece of cake, as I regularly watch the youngsters in my local searching the internet, taking photos, downloading music and chatting on their mobiles. I started to press a few keys, put my finger across the screen and was dazzled as well as puzzled by the complexity of these little screens.

I started with £17 worth of credit, and after eight days in which I struggled to use it, I had 85 pence credit left. I later found out I had pressed a Data button thinking it would give me information. Wrong, it meant I had been searching the internet, cost £2 per day.

After taking photos when I thought I was making calls, making calls when I thought I was sending text messages, sending texts when I was taking photos, setting the alarm for 9am and being woke up at 3am, 5.15am and 6.27am instead, spending about 5 minutes on each of those occasions trying to turn the alarm off (that one didn’t go down too well in my household, missing calls because I had the ring tone on silent etc etc.

I suspect there are a few smiling youngsters laughing as they read this, bless them, with sheepish looking parents in the background. But have no fear, I intend to attack this nightmare of modern technology with malice and afterthought. I managed to send a text at last today.

BILL WILLIAMS

Merlin Way, Covingham