Here are the latest Fenland Citizen letters…
Stop sign is ignored by most drivers
I read with interest and also total agreement, the article where Cllr Ken Perrin talks about speeding on Station Street and Station Road in Chatteris.
There are many inconsiderate people who treat the roads as their own race track and lack common sense.
At the intersection of Station Street, opposite the fire station, there is a STOP sign clearly marked, which is largely ignored by most people, whether they turn right or left, which then becomes a one way towards the High Street.
On numerous occasions in the past I have been narrowly missed by drivers just turning right.
One day there will be a serious collision in that vicinity and then it will be too late. Stop means stop.
If the police had the time, they would have a field day monitoring this intersection.
Martin Goodman
via email
I will be voting for the Greens
I have been writing to Readers’ View, and its forerunners, since 1993.
Many people often ask me where I get my facts, figures, and information from for my letters.
I do this by subscribing to several left-wing newspapers including: Socialist Worker; The Socialist; The Communist; Workers Hammer; Workers Power; and Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism, together with Socialism Today magazine.
I also read the Daily Mirror; The Guardian; and the Financial Times.
I find writing very difficult. In my letter writing I try to make up for the hard time I gave Miss Chapman, my English teacher at Wisbech Grammar School, who helped me pass my O-level English Language at the second attempt.
For the last 45 years I have had a daily battle with severe depression.
The three to four hours that it takes me to research, write, and sub-edit my letters relieves my depression somewhat.
I try to give a Marxist point of view towards local, national, and international issues which are in the news or are featured in this newspaper.
I joined the Labour Party aged 18 in 1978.
I was a member until 1994, when Tony Blair turned it into New Labour, a party of the rich and powerful, similar to the New Democrats in the USA.
I will not be voting for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in the next general election. Like many people I was shocked to hear him say on the Nick Ferrari LBC radio programme that Israel ‘had the right’ to withhold water and power from Gaza.
Instead, I will be voting for Andy Crawford, the Green Party’s parliamentary candidate for North East Cambridgeshire.
The Green Party is a left-wing social democratic party, which supports a ceasefire in Gaza, and calls on Hamas to release all hostages, and for Israel to release all Palestinians held in prison.
John Smithee
Wisbech
They should look at legal migration
Following the calling of a July 4 general election, the aeroplanes to Rwanda will now not happen. Even if we disregard the European Court of Human Rights, the migrants can use UK courts and the Supreme court to challenge deportation.
That's why Rishi announces a July Election before the plan falls flat on its face - the truth is he never wanted to stop migration.
The biggest problem is legal migration by universities profiteering from educating foreign students and charging them higher tuition fees.
They then bring over their families for British citizenship and permanent residency.
Each year legal migration is double that of illegal migration and it's exhausting housing, infrastructure and public services.
Mark Burton
Chatteris
