Letters: August 5, 2016

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Disgraceful treatment

I AM writing to register my deep concern at the treatment of Aisling Hubert by the Crown Prosecution Service.

Following the refusal of the CPS to prosecute doctors involved in “gender abortion” – they were aborting baby girls solely because of their sex – Aisling launched a private prosecution.

And, despite finding sufficient evidence to prosecute two of the doctors, the CPS decided that it was not in the public interest to do so.

When she launched the private prosecution, the CPS refused to release the filmed evidence that was given to them following an undercover investigation by a national newspaper.

And a judge sitting at Manchester Crown Court refused to order it into evidence.

Then the CPS intervened in the case and promptly dropped it.

The action that Aisling had taken, as a last resort, to bring justice for unborn baby girls, was suddenly closed down.

Now the court has ordered her to pay £36,000 to the two doctors and their lawyers who performed these “gender abortions” and £11,000 legal costs for challenging the CPS decision.

She cannot afford to pay this and she now faces another court hearing where the court could reduce total costs, agree a gradual payment schedule, or even, incredibly, impose a term of imprisonment.

I think that this is an absolute disgrace to the British judicial system and an affront to our democracy.

Not only have the deeply immoral acts of two doctors gone unpunished but it may very well deter other ordinary citizens from pursuing their democratic rights through a private prosecution if they are going to be hit with such punitive punishments from the legal establishment.

STEVE JACK

Damson Trees, Shrivenham

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Moaning about result

IT AMAZES me just how Luddite a large portion of the population still is even in these enlightened times.

One that amazed me is the letter from Adam Poole, not so much a Remainer but a Remoaner.

Just learn to live with it. The Remainer/Remoaners lost and by more than a million votes. What part of that do you not understand?

You keep going on at Des Morgan as though it is his personal fault you lost. In actual fact it was much more simple. All the dummies who wanted to stay in the EU were too complacent to go out and vote or perhaps too idle or stupid – you choose.

You can, if you wish, go to Europe and live there with the rest of the no hopers in the EU. Nobody here is going to stop you.

You have another Luddite – MJ Warner – writing in about how wonderful Gordon Brown was as Chancellor.

This was All I can say is that it cannot be that hard to get a PHD. Prolific reader he may have been. But I suspect it was works of fiction mostly.

This was the man who chose to sell our gold off at the lowest price ever.

If that is what a genius is like then give me George Osborne over him any day.

George wasn’t my favourite but he at least got the economy back on track.

When are you people going to realise that the Labour Party doesn’t understand money, or business either?

Their record on this stretches back endlessly. They have messed up so many things it is untrue.

Gordon Brown messed all the pensions in the country because he had to meddle with things he didn’t understand. Now everybody’s pension is at risk due to him.

And, let’s face it, it was the Labour government of the day under Harold Wilson who killed off one of the most forward looking designs for one of our military aircraft we have ever seen.

The TSR 2 was the aircraft he killed. We could have sold this to so many countries it would have been an unbelievable success and earned this country billions of pounds and kept hundreds of thousands of skilled workers employed. Ring a bell does it?

On Page 9 of Saturday’s Adver the same Luddite behaviour starts again.

It appears we now have a group in Wiltshire who are anti-fracking.

They had a meeting with Wiltshire Council earlier last month and tried to get the council to change its minerals and waste policy.

They had a guy called Geza Tarjanyi there to discuss plans. Well they certainly don’t speak for me, this Keep Wiltshire Frack Free group.

What do these so called experts know about fracking?

Are they qualified geologists and have degrees in those subjects?

All of us need energy and it has to come from somewhere, or do you all want to go back to candles and wood fires?

Look around you people and join the real world.

A final point: like Bill Williams I, too, am totally baffled by these new super phones.

So Bill, you are not alone and I suspect there are many more like us.

DAVID COLLINS

Blake Crescent, Swindon

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Climate change exists

VICTOR Cook asks how much CO2 humans breathe out every year.

As far as I can ascertain it was 2.94 billion tonnes in 2011 so it will be several billion tonnes more by now.

This is an approximation and I have no way of verifying these figures.

However, this doesn’t effect carbon in the atmosphere as the carbon we breathe out is carbon that we eat as food which derives from plants.

Plants derive their carbon from the atmosphere, so it is a closed circle.

This doesn’t take into account the burning of rainforests for grazing or the use of fossil fuel to make fertilisers.

However, it is both these activities that cause the extra carbon in the atmosphere, not breathing per se.

I mentioned grazing and I feel it relevant to mention meat production produces approximately 10 per cent of greenhouse gasses, according to Prof Gidon Eshel.

If everyone in the UK halved the amount of meat they ate we could reduce our CO2 emissions by five per cent and it might do us a lot of good healthwise as well.

I am not a vegetarian but have reduced my meat consumption without any negative effects on my enjoyment of food.

Mr Cook mentions “so-called climate change”. There is nothing so-called about climate change. It exists, it is proven and it is proven to be caused by human activity, just not by breathing.

STEVE THOMPSON

Norman Road, Swindon