Letters: November 1, 2016

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Send refugees to USA

WHILST I agree that this country should take in refugees which include children and adults, however not economic migrants, I do have a concern about there being sufficient housing and schools and medical facilities etc, as when all is said and done we are a small over populated island.

What really does annoy me however, is that many European countries are taking refugees in as well as the UK, however the nation that orchestrated the wars and uses other western nations to help them fight under the guise of NATO, to my knowledge is not taking any in.

The USA is responsible for all of the trouble that is currently happening in middle eastern countries, as well as orchestrating the coup in Kiev, but that is another story.

Therefore why is it not taking responsibility for the refugee crisis that it has primarily caused as being the ring leader, of other western nations including ours? And more to the point why are not the EU countries, or the UK asking the same question, and demanding some answers from across the pond?

After all the US does refer to itself as being the ‘land of the free’ and also has thousands of acres ‘going begging’ unlike our own overcrowded country.

Wouldn’t it be nice to witness a few daily flights of giant US Air force C17 Globe Master aircraft ferrying these poor displaced people to the land of the American dream as some sort of recompense and compensation for destroying their homelands?

Finally, Obama has gone on the record as saying that his country is exceptional, and so may I suggest that they do something very exceptional indeed by taking in their fair share of refugees that they did so very much to create as well as the havoc and destruction of infrastructure, in these peoples homelands.

They could actually re-home all the lot of them and what’s more surely the onus is upon them to do so. and not to sit back and watch as Europe and this country try to sort out the mess, that has been caused by their attempts at subversion and regime change in the countries that these people have been forced to flee from.

GA WOODWARD

Nelson Street

Swindon

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Double standards?

ONLY a few short weeks ago you very kindly published a letter in which I suggested that the head of Renault-Nissan was ‘trying it on again’ with his threat to reconsider Nissan’s investment strategy following the Brexit vote.

In 2000 when the UK was actively considering joining the Euro Carlos Ghosn ‘persuaded’ the Labour Government of Tony Blair to provide financial support of £100m

And, in return, Mr Ghosn assured the Prime Minister the company would not transfer production of the Micra from Sunderland to Barcelona.

The UK didn’t join the Euro and Mr Ghosn transferred Micra production to India.

It ill behoves Labour to criticise the Conservatives for doing exactly what Tony Blair did in 2000.

However, it is surprising that Renault, the French owners of Nissan, haven’t lobbied the French Government to stop threatening the UK with all sorts of dire consequences for their impertinence in wanting to leave the EU.

Surely the company can see the fiscal downside of a tariff war in which Renault-Nissan would be a double loser.

DES MORGAN

Caraway Drive

Swindon

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Strictly tongue in cheek

I HAVE recently become a fan of Strictly Come Dancing. Watching Ed Balls getting to the third round has given me the idea of making some suggestions.

Nicola Sturgeon dancing with Nick Clegg to the tune of the Hokey Cokey, with the SNP in musical accompaniment. Tony Blair and Cherie Blair dancing to Telling Lies, with David Renard and the Swindon Council in musical accompaniment. Nigel Farage and Theresa May dancing to Never Give Up On Your Dreams, with the UKIP choir in musical accompaniment. David and Samantha Cameron dancing to I Am A Loser with all the Remain MPs in musical accompaniment.

Gary Lineker and Lily Allen dancing to When We Were Young with musical accompaniment from the male voice choir from the Calais Refugee Camp. Keith Vaz and Diane Abbot dancing to Two Faced People, with the You Could Not Make It Up House of Commons choir. Then as a finale, Jeane Claude-Juncker and Christine Lagarde dancing to Money Talks, musical accompaniment piped from the Albert Hall played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

I would like to add that I hope all the handwringing liberal elites take this in the humorous manner that is intended. before sending in their usual arguments in reply.

BILL WILLIAMS

Merlin Way, Covingham, Swindon

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Power corrupts?

I LIVED in Oxford for three years, 2006-2009. I watched how the future ruling class behave toward the rest of people. It was Oxford that I learned that the elites lived in an illusionary world.

I watched 18-29-year-old males and females who believed that the rest of the population are here to serve them. They rationalised their self-illusion by looking at their life experiences. They come from the upper class of the society. At the age of seven or 11 they had servants. Their servants were adults who did everything for them – from washing their backs to cutting their nails.

They believed that those who did not come from similar to their background were inferior intelligently.

They strongly believed they were gifted, talented and destined to rule the people because they were the ‘chosen people’ as prophesied in the biblical pages.

Oxford and Cambridge universities confirmed their self-illusion. They read history, politics, philosophy, economics, law, medicine and so on. In the real sense, they’re semi-literate. Nevertheless, they master one thing alone: The art of ruling. They immerse themselves in the behaviour and secrets of the ruling class of the past. Their self-illusion goes with them to the Parliament. It’s that self-illusion that created the economic and political crisis.

AXMED BAHJAD

Fleet Street, Swindon