IN reply to ‘Bill’ and ‘Disappointed’ (Mailbag, September 6), you’re not proper Town fans!
According to reports in the Examiner, Jordan Rhodes wanted to leave Town last January and Dean Hoyle talked to him about getting the club promotion to the Championship and Jordan agreed to stay until then.
Town have gone up in what I must say was the most enjoyable match day of my life, but Town are not a one man team!
Jordan wanted to go so let him – we can move on. Dean Hoyle and Simon Grayson have made some quality signings this season. One of them, Joel Lynch, scored against Burnley at home in a 2-0 win for the club’s first Championship three points of the season.
It is extremely early days yet in the new football season and real Town fans will support the club through thick and thin, week in week out.
I have to admit that I was surprised that Jordan had gone to another Championship club, but as long as he’s happy then good luck to him and a massive thank you for all those goals!
Let us all now look forward to what is going to be a very exciting season of Championship football. Come on Town!
Vicky Bradshaw
Netherton
A wrong decision
I READ with great surprise the report on the proposed extension to the licence at the Stumble Inn at Hinchliffe Mill.
I live immediately adjacent to the Stumble and have had no problems since it opened earlier this year.
It would appear to me that neither Clr D Firth nor Clr N Patrick have visited the pub or the area.
The landlord and landlady are a lovely, decent middle-aged couple and the majority of the customers are local and middle-aged.
This report makes it sound like a scene from the Wild West but nothing could be further from the truth!
Many of my neighbours use the pub and wrote letters of support but obviously this one lady’s opinion swayed the balance. This doesn’t sound very democratic.
The only known objector showed the panel pictures of supposed parking problems but the cars shown in these photos all belong to residents of the adjacent block of houses.
Surely, in these circumstances, there should be some opportunity to appeal.
Rob Donaldson
Hinchliffe Mill
Forced to work
MANY people have not made the connection between Atos, the company sponsoring the Paralympics, and Atos, the company on a £100m contract from the Government to carry out work capability assessments on people with disabilities.
People with very serious disabilities are scoring zero points in these tests which, according to Atos, makes them fit for work.
Just this week it was announced that those of the disabled deemed most fit for work would be forced onto unlimited work experience schemes and, if they refused, stand to lose up to £71 a week in benefit.
David Cameron said he hoped the Paralympics would influence perceptions of people with disabilities in a positive way.
But it is the government itself which has had the leading role in helping to denigrate and demonise anyone on benefits, including some of the poorest and most needy sections of the population.
Atos is being paid huge amounts of our money to force the disabled into work or work experience and many have already paid with their lives. Others live in fear of losing their benefits.
It is inhumane and cruel to treat people in this way, but it takes attention away from the abuse that is happening at the top of society. This is where we will find the real scroungers.
It is clear that we aren’t ‘all in it together’. The rich continue to get richer while the burden falls on those who can least afford it.
Under the dubious cover of the need for austerity measures, the government is setting out to destroy the whole concept of public services with its safety net for the weakest and poorest members of society.
Atos are doing the Government’s dirty work. They should be exposed and closed down.
June Jones
Marsden
Not our candidate
MR John Kaye makes a number of interesting points in The Examiner’s Mailbag (September 5) about getting people back to work which I’m sure many people will applaud.
However, he ends by enjoining readers to ‘vote for me, your future local Labour candidate.’
On behalf of Colne Valley Constituency Labour Party I must point out that although John is a very recently-joined member of the Labour Party he is not in any position to describe himself as a future Labour candidate, nor is he a spokesman.
Pat Colling
Huddersfield
I think it’s a farce
REGARDING the Milnsbridge chaos I am not one bit shocked about the farce that is going on given Kirklees Highways’ record on the local roads humps all over the place and Pelican crossings every 20 yards.
Who decided to put Give Way signs at the bottom of Station Road in Lepton which is an accident waiting to happen.
Cars coming into the middle of the road can’t see a thing and my son had to swerve into the pavement to avoid hitting a car the other day.
S turner
Dalton
Job needs doing
Milnsbridge bridge is a job that needs doing. If the bridge collapsed and caused numerous fatalities the public would be up in arms.
Give the workers a chance.
Mr booth
Longwood
Blind as a bat?
BAT smacking, view trashing, silence smashing, value crashing wind turbines each the height of three telegraph poles are now proposed for the Shepley area.
At 11Kw output, this will just about power a decent electric shower – not the Holme Valley!
The applicants have had to obtain reports from experts to try and quash previous objections.
The bat expert must be as ‘blind as the proverbial’ since I saw two bats last night about 30ft away from the proposed turbine site and the expert said the nearest recorded was nearly three-quarters-of-a-mile away.
Simon Shaw
New Mill
A library poem
Firstly, libraries in the past.
Little Daisy down a mine, eight years old covered in grime, working 10 long hours a day has no time to read or play;
Mum and dad, siblings too, dying young for greed’s abuse, seems it’s always been that way, then it came, that wonderful day.
Children taken from their hell, into schools to read and spell; then a place of joy and glee, came for all the library.
And now the present
They’re getting rid of libraries and sacking all the staff,
You must be joking it can’t be true, no, you’re having a laugh!
Politicians and the bankers screwed up Britain, now the people have to pay, for their screw up in every way.
To pay the debts there must be cuts, if you don’t like it, it’s just tough!
And libraries, a place of learning for past and present generations, so discerning.
And, finally, the future
Little Daisy sits at home, blinking out her mothers moans,
All she does is watch TV since they closed the library.’
Tried to run them with unpaid staff and volunteers, what a laugh. Time alone would surely tell, then it came that sonorous death knell.
No more children full of glee choosing books from libraries for they’ve been shut to appease the debt that brought this country to its knees,
Yes its really sad to see, the death of all our libraries.
Fred Tidball
Holmfirth
