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Letters - 22 October 2010
Reduce MPs to ease massive debt burden
We’re all in this together, Chancellor “George Osbourne tells the nation as he announces massive employment cuts in the public sector.

Why, I would like to ask him if he believes we’re all in this together, has there been no cut to the ranks of our politicians?

I think George should examine the Register of MPs’ financial interests and see how many of his colleagues make thousands of pounds for themselves by doing other paid employment outwith the House of Commons.

How do they have time to do other jobs?

The Government should sack those MPs who seek outside employment and merge constituencies.

George also told us that the Government believes in fairness. What’s fair about English taxpayers paying for devolved government in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and not having devolved government in England?

I say give the English devolved government, let members of an English Parliament sit in the House of Commons and deal with matters pertaining to England.

Then sack all those MPs who travel from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (at massive public expense) to the House of Commons. Their jobs can be done by those politicians already serving in those devolved parliaments.

On matters concerning the whole of the United Kingdom the devolved governments can meet via video- conferencing link.

That’s what I call fair and we’re all in this together, not rules for some and different rules for others. — Watcher.

Had great time

Some of the Brownies performing at the show.

Congratulations to all the Rainbows, Brownies and Guides who took part in the Centenary Celebrations in the Caird Hall in Dundee.

My two daughters attended and when they came out they were full of beans.

They said they had joined other Brownies from around the world, renewing their promise and enjoying a party with literally hundreds of their friends.

Well done to all those who organised this mass event. — Mum of Two Brownies.

Clean station is fine as is
I reply to letter writer Post Man Pat on the subject of Dundee Railway Station.

I think Dundee Station is clean and the folk working there are first class.

What I actually said in my previous letter is I think there is no need to spend lots of money upgrading the station because it is likely passengers numbers will fall drastically in the not too distant future as the railway line north of Edinburgh will not be electrified.

The fact is, when I travel from Carnoustie to Dundee by train the first monstrosity of a building that catches my eye when I leave the railway station is “faulty tower”, aka Dundee City Council’s offices at 28 Crichton Street. — Kenneth Brannan.

Anti-social behaviour destroying city street
Cullen Place in Craigie, Dundee, used to be a nice area. It is now being destroyed by troublemakers.

There have been flats given to anti-social people and there are large numbers of young people who come into the area and end up fighting.

I wish more action could be taken to stop this from happening. It is very disturbing to have all this trouble on your doorstep.

There are a lot of elderly people here and it is very frightening. — Anonymous Resident.

Dundee’s Batman
Recent scaffolding work around the West End reminded me of a well-known character in the 1960s. He was a steeplejack, also a mountaineer, who was known as ‘Batman’.

I once saw him hanging vertically from the steeple of a church in the Perth Road.

There were so many onlookers the police had to move them on, it was simply breathtaking.

Once, it was said, he could only achieve his aim by hanging upside down on a tenement, although some residents were alarmed by the sight of him passing their windows! Batman was named after the TV character of the same name.

He enjoyed a drink in pubs around the West End, especially the Speedwell Bar, or Mennie’s, its local name.

One trick was to balance 10 pint tumblers without the structure collapsing. He was a great character and Dundee had, and still has, many of them. — John Dench.

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