YOUR editorial comment (The Press, September 22) is absolutely right that City of York Council should give careful consideration to Alan Robinson’s idea for a bus station.
The city council claims to to support public consultation and wants to engage with citizens. This is an ideal opportunity for it to put its words into practice.
The lack of a bus station in York has been a serious deficiency for decades, much to the amazement of many visitors from places where a dedicated bus hub is taken for granted as an essential requirement.
The revamping of the station area is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It must not be thrown away.
Matthew Laverack,
Lord Mayors Walk, York
We must leave EU or raise the white flag
THE ritual humiliation of Theresa May and our country by the EU reached a new level at the recent summit (hosted by Austria whose current Chancellor is in coalition with fascists). Surely it is now time we face up to the truth as a nation. The choice is simple. Either we leave this self-serving and corrupt club as soon as possible or wave the white flag.
David Farnsworth,
Haxby, York
We can’t leave the EU and retain benefits
WE are locked in an unhappy UK version of Groundhog Day. Years ago, Margaret Thatcher stormed off from a meeting claiming absurdly that the whole of the EU was isolating itself from the UK. This week Jeremy Hunt called on the EU to “step back from the abyss” over Brexit.
Surely we are all smart enough to understand that when one person in a group of 28 decides to turn their back on everyone else then it is the person turning their back who is isolating him/herself? And when one person in a group decides to jump off a cliff it is meaningless to require the others to step back from the abyss.
The EU never asked the UK to leave. Like every other organisation in the world, the EU has benefits that are enjoyed by its members. If you don’t want to be a member you don’t enjoy the benefits.
What is so hard to understand? Unicorns, on the right and the left, can stomp their feet and demand the right to leave and keep the benefits but it won’t happen.
Do people who are not members of the AA get free roadside assistance from the AA?
Blake Court,
Wheldrake, York
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