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Forget foreign aid

On reading the Adver article on the fantastic generosity of the people of Swindon, it makes you proud to be a resident, regarding the reaching a target of £2.5 million for the radiotherapy unit for GWH. I have donated myself on more than one occasion to this good cause, personally, and as a member of a charitable organisation.

I had a friend who had to go to Oxford for radiotherapy treatment and the NHS paid for a taxi to take him there, wait for him, then take him home again to Swindon. What is that costing the NHS?

Why should the residents of Swindon and surrounding areas have to raise a penny for this good cause when we have successive governments handing out billions in foreign aid? Two and a half million is a drop in the ocean compared to the hand-outs we have to borrow to give away billions in foreign aid. Should foreign aid come before the health and welfare of British citizens? Who voted for that one on the altar of politicians inflated smug self satisfying egos?

It is a typical example of the political ‘we know best brigade’ on how to spend tax payers’ money, without asking the taxpayers. Shouldn’t we put more police on the streets? Employ more carers, nurses and doctors? Build more council houses for people on low incomes with young families? The list is endless.

I think a radiotherapy unit for the GWH at £2.9 million is more important than the £5.8 million grant given to the girl band Yegna, nicknamed the Ethiopian Spice Girls. Or am I missing something? I await a reply on these pages from our two Swindon MPs regarding the aforementioned question.

Bill Williams, Merlin Way, Covingham

The good old days

I sympathise with Bill Williams who’s fed up with the remoaners, but I would console him with the fact that our exit is now only a few months away – hang on in there Bill, England’s mountains green will be just as tall come March and we won’t have to let any pinko Middle Eastern prophets stomp all over them. We can say goodbye to stinking French cheeses, to lager and olive oil and all that other foreign muck that passes as food.

But Brexit doesn’t have to be the end, or even the beginning of the end – I envisage further reforms, with the aim of establishing a truly British population. We could test everyone’s DNA, and deport those whose ancestors didn’t arrive by land before the last Ice Age. The dozen or so of us that are left can demand our £350 million a week in bullion, using it to build a Golden Castle from which to sally forth, daubed with woad, to gather berries and roots and hunt wild boar, and we’ll be strong again, just like in the good old days.

Yes Bill, we True Brits can unite against the encroaching degeneracy of multiculturalism, left-wing bookshops, liberal democracy etc. All we need to do is vote for what we believe in!

Neil Martyn, Fitzroy Road, Swindon