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Action needs to be taken or this will surely continue

I find it incredulous that no further action is to be taken by police after a horse was left standing in extremely hot weather, for goodness knows how long, and which eventually collapsed outside the Principality Stadium.

The police force says no further action is being taken because of “insufficient evidence”.

In heaven’ s name, what more evidence do the police need?

This will continue unless the police take action.

We had a similar incident in Queensferry earlier last week.

Presumably no action taken there either.

Action needs to be taken, and punishment needs to be meted out, or this will continue.

Very, very sad state of affairs.

Freda Salway

Penylan, Cardiff

Damaging cause they seek to serve

Radical activists, inspired by the highest motives, are frequently so confused by the influence of this unprincipled culture upon themselves, that they are unable to perceive how much they damage the moral causes which they seek to serve.

So protesters hoping to promote the ecology of the planet disrupt the nation’s economy and the livelihood of citizens and sincerely believe that voters will be attracted by this publicity.

They really believe that the sight of angry adults on the TV screen, acting in an immature, irresponsible manner, will draw thoughtful people to the majesty of that vision. That is self-delusion, emotion minus thought.

A peaceful protest has the dignity of a serious mind, plus emotions.

This is gesture politics, demonstrating and protesting against the dreadful injustices of the political system, in Britain, France, Sudan, Morocco, Libya, etc, where good people think that unbridled anger ever achieved anything, apart from the eruption of more violence in return, which they have justified. Paris proves it.

They are incapable of intelligent self-criticism, just because they are “on the side of the angels”, and “mean well”, a different form of complacency, from the self-centred, reactionary and unprincipled villains whom they oppose.

The history of the British Labour Party has been that intellectual and ethical giants, such as Attlee, Harold Wilson, John Smith and Gordon Brown, comparable to Gladstone and Lloyd George, have been handicapped by companions who were moved by a negative but righteous desire to protest, with little positive intellect to understand constructive economists like John Maynard Keynes, JK Galbraith and Thomas Pikkerty, in order to achieve social justice.

Neville Westerman

Brynna

Good motorists dip their headlights

What insanity persuades a car driver to drive with headlights on full and high beam at five o’clock in the afternoon?

Now don’t tell me that it’s EU laws. It isn’t.

The rules are crystal clear and only differ from construction and use regulations in the context of automatic running lights, otherwise between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise are the times when dipped headlights should be used.

And to all the morons who flashed me for not having my lights on on Cyncoed Road at six o’clock – it was broad daylight.

Peter Sunman

Roath, Cardiff

We were proud to live here once

AS the Mackintosh Place Residents Association chairman, I feel I have to speak for the residents and say how sad it is that the members of this Labour council are not up to keeping the streets (the houses) in good condition.

Please someone from the council, anyone, walk up to the top of Mackintosh Place and see what it is like to live in a filthy area.

Where have all these people been living prior to coming to live in Mackintosh Place?

Does the Labour council consider the residents who have lived here for over 40 years and more?

Will they accept any riff-raff they wish to house in our once-lovely street?

We are not snobs but we do like the people who live here to keep their homes clean and rubbish free.

If we have to put up with scruffy residents, we need the council to consider reducing our rates quite a lot.

There are no police around, litter is left by the refuse collectors, rats are running quite openly and discarded furniture is left in the street.

I could go on and on but I am sure Cardiff residents are sick of reading letters like this one.

How lovely is it to live in an area you can be proud of? Not so in Mackintosh Place.

I was told some years ago I should move. Why should I move from the home my husband and I paid for and worked hard to keep nice?

We were proud to live in this area once upon a time but not any more.

For goodness’ sake move off those easy chairs of yours and get on doing some cleaning up jobs in the streets you are supposed to look after when you take your job on and I don’t mean just Cyncoed – I hear they have cleaners every day – are theydifferent to us in Mackintosh Place then?

Margaret Harries

Roath, Cardiff

All Labour wants is a general election

So the Brexit talks between the Conservatives and Labour resume this week.

I hope they bear fruit because our country needs to leave the EU as soon as possible, but I fear they will not because in truth all the Labour politicians want is a general election.

John Bevan

Llandaff

Brexit bungling or conspiracy?

Welsh voters will be justified in wondering whether Parliament’s failure to deliver Brexit is down to conspiracy or just bungling incompetence. Perhaps it’s a bit of both.

After all, it was Lib Dem, Labour, Conservative and Green MPs who in gay abandon voted to have a referendum on Brexit in 2016 even though a Press Association survey of the time revealed that 480 out of the 650 MPs were pro-EU.

So why did they give us a choice?

Perhaps they thought we would do as we were told by big business and the political establishment, just as we had done in 1975.

If they had supposed for one second that we would vote to leave the EU, they wouldn’t have given us a say, let alone promise to carry out whatever we decided.

So perhaps the last three years of dithering, defeats, grandstanding and botched proposals, accompanied by non-stop EU flag waving and 24-hour bad news courtesy of Project Fear Mark 2 are all part of a cunning plan orchestrated by the powers that be to convince the public that leaving the EU is too difficult, that our quest for independence is just not worth the bother and that Brexit is a failure even though we haven’t actually experienced being outside the EU yet.

The only way to settle the nationwide argument about Brexit is to suck it and see.

The nation has experienced 46 years of EU membership and decided in 2016 to try something new.

What of it?

Nothing lasts forever.

And there’s no point in another referendum until we have experienced life outside the EU for a few years to see if Brexit works. If it doesn’t, then we can decide to apply to rejoin the EU but we need to experience a “clean break” Brexit first before we can make another judgement.

Trying Brexit is logical, it’s democratic and it’s the British way of doing things; we vote, we experience the consequences of how we voted and then we vote again in the light of our experience.

It is imperative that this simple but precious process is protected against the machinations of Brussels, the political establishment and big business by ensuring that that the will of the people’s vote of 2016 prevails, whether it be for good or ill.

David Green

www.liberalBrexiteers.com, Southport