MS KANE is correct in referring to the development of a new cemetery on Ipsley Meadow as a ‘land grab’, possibly the first of many.
We are used to tales of the parlous state of RBCs finances and what could be more tempting than a ‘small scale facility’ here, an ‘environmentally friendly business’ there and a ‘sustainable development’ somewhere else.
Eventually Arrow Valley Park will be the path around the lake and maybe millennium wood and Proctors Barn meadow.
The 800-plus objections were in marked contrast to the (13?) responses they got to plans for the centre of Redditch in one of their bogus ‘consultations’.
Mr Dormer is always telling people his door is open but it is only so Czar Matthew can issue his latest ‘ukase’ to the peasantry, not for meaningful dialogue.
K Wass, Matchborough
IN REFERENCE to the Garden Suite, I am tired of hearing that there is yet another ‘consultation’ being held.
The Redditch area has more than 110,000 residents and there should be no further debate.
Not everyone has the means of travelling to Kidderminster (i.e. elderly people etc); and it is therefore imperative that this ward should and must return.
The town of Redditch is growing and the Alexandra Hospital is worthy of needing and getting this important ward.
My hubby passed away with pancreatic cancer some time ago and it is well known in the medical field that this cancer is one of the most painful conditions one can have.
Name and Address provided
HAVING read our MP’s Westminster Diary published in last week’s paper, I would like to to take her up on some of the points made in defence of the Government’s stance in respect to our open borders.
I would like to ask her why is our Government allowing this to happen and not introducing a policy of “Operation Sovereign Borders” like the Australians.
If she would care to read the legal advice publication entitled “Assessing Australia`s Push Back the boats Policy under International Law. Legality and Accountability for Maritime Interceptions of irregular Migrants” she might just find the answer.
I am not against controlled immigration, but I am against the constant flow of illegal immigrants coming from a safe country and our Government’s inability to deal with it.
On this basis I would challenge her to answer the following five questions in her next column:
1, How many illegal immigrants have entered our country in the last 12 months?
2, How many have been granted asylum?
3, How many have been deported?
4, What has this cost the taxpayer?
5, Why does she believe the Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill will resolve this problem?
I feel sure that being a minister in the Home Office these figures would be readily available to her.
I await her answers with anticipation.
Name and address supplied
WHAT on earth has Redditch Borough Council come to when two Councillors on the virtual Overview and Scrutiny Committee on December 13 so insensitively and blatantly mislead the residents and the meeting by claiming consultation had already been had about cemetery provision in Redditch.
I couldn’t believe my ears when Coun Emma Marshall said the people of Redditch were offered to phone the Leader of the Council and that constituted consultation.
But then to hear Coun Thain David agree with her and repeating the same made me feel very upset and even a bit angry.
I also remember Coun Dormer making suggestions that we have a chat with him on the phone about demolishing the library.
Is this the new way of doing things in the council where no accountability, transparency or proper consultation?
It’s beginning to feel like the sleaze of the Government has come to Redditch.
Resident of Redditch
Name and Address supplied
INTERESTING to see that Rachel Maclean MP firmly believes the most compassionate thing we can do for refugees and asylum-seekers is leave them in a country where the gendarmerie are more than likely to destroy their tents, steal such meagre possessions as they have and beat them up.
Maybe she doesn’t bother taking an interest in the news, or Newsnight, or indeed the press because there have been reports in all three media, complete with photos of these people’s desperate plight, wandering up and down the roads around Calais, especially with winter drawing on and a Covid pandemic raging.
I suggest the most compassionate thing we could do is provide safe, legal routes for refugees and asylum-seekers to reach our shores – since Priti Patel destroyed the only ones that existed.
We’ve taken very few refugees compared to Germany or France, not anywhere near even the pitiful target that Theresa May set for child-refugees.
Moreover, why is there an assumption on the part of avid Brexiteers that we’ll be able to pick and choose so many top consultants and surgeons, so many rocket scientists and so forth, from the potential refugee-pool?
Clearly, the definition of compassion in Rachel Maclean’s dictionary is very different from that in mine.
I don’t know how my own MP feels – Nadhim Zahawi came here himself, with his parents, as a refugee at the age of eight.
On the other hand, he is a good and obedient Tory, toeing the party line, so maybe that counts for more with him these days – but I hope not.
V Gaize, Studley
