'We have written to our MP but yet again nothing done' - Your Letters: April 9

We here in Lugg View, Presteigne, have for many years been asking Powys County Council if they would please cut down some of the sycamore trees which line the Clatter Brook which runs behind our flats (5-12) as we can get very little TV channels one lady resident is almost 80 and can only get a TV signal for a few weeks of the year but nothing is ever done. Why?

We have also had a problem with the parking asking for one parking space each as they have at the bottom of the estate but yet again Powys County Council do nothing. We have also written to our MP but yet again nothing done. We are so fed up with asking, yet all the trees are trimmed and tidied up at Llandod where the council offices are!

How much longer do we have to wait ?

Mrs L Kirkham, Presteigne

POLITICAL DEBATE IS DANGEROUS

The Labour Party has proven time and again that it will adapt to the political climate, but at what cost? The rise of Reform, with its hollow, Britain First rhetoric, where “Britain” means oligarchs and the wealthy elite, has dragged the political debate into dangerous, Trumpian territory. Reform thrives on scapegoating, demonising “illegals” and slashing the so-called “bloated” state, and now the Government is following their lead. This is not just cruel; it is calculated.

The Government has chosen to pit disabled people against so-called “hard-working Britons,” turning some of the most vulnerable members of our society into villains. My friend, who is wheelchair-bound, is being treated as if he and his family are enemies of the working public. Their punishment? A devastating loss of £6,500 a year. And they are not alone – 250,000 others are being pushed into poverty. This is not just morally indefensible – it is economically senseless.As their health deteriorates, demand for acute medical services will soar. More people will be unable to work. The Government’s cruel, short-term penny-pinching will only lead to greater long-term costs.

Patrick McCarthy, Telford and Wrekin Green Party Co-ordinator

WHY I WILL BE STANDING IN POLL

My wife and I saved Cromwell’s Hotel and jobs in Shrewsbury. This was against, what I believe to have been, an anti-business Shropshire Council.

Then in Lockdown, I served the community by transporting over 4,000 patients in an ambulance and after that passed my HGV test and collected bins driving an HGV bin lorry because there was a shortage of HGV drivers. I’ve volunteered to drive NHS staff through the heavy snow and worked in the care sector.

I want to serve as a councillor in Shropshire for the Reform Party. People matter not politics.

Mike Avery, Shrewsbury

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