READING of the invasion by cars with optical cameras photographing every property in a particular area, satellites hovering overhead producing images, one wonders why 'we did not let Hitler and Stalin take us over, because so much detail is being controlled by these nefarious means that we are unable to live a private life.
I rang the police about this surveillance problem but they said it was not for them, and so where on earth does one go if protection is not their province?
In rural areas it can be 48 hours before a police response so why have they the temerity to take any part of the council tax if a secondary service is being provided? They do pop up and issue speeding tickets because that does not require effort and is cash-rewarding.
We have had thirteen years of failed promises, the emphasis is according to the first Prime Minister in 1997 was education. . . the new occupier of that position declared that 'boom and bust' were of a past but what do we have but an economy bolstered by massive public spending which cannot be paid for except by massive tax rises which today they deny they will impose!
We were once a world example but now a mere spectator to be dictated to by the EU and its massively overpaid beauracrats. I am not going to vote UKIP, but that is because defection from the Conservatives will merely give Gordon Brown another five years and a chance to tell us more 'porkies' about underfunding of our troops in isolated war zones.
Derek Godfrey-Brown
Larkbeare
Okehampton