Sun put smiles on faces
I DON’T know how many of the thousands of human beings quoted in the media as about to pop their clogs due to the heat, did actually die.
Again the nanny state was hard at it, telling the people to wear a hat, drink water and, in some cases, not to turn up for work. How stupid do these people think we are?
It was marvellous seeing all our beaches packed, all the lidos full to bursting, ice cream being sold by the ton, and people just generally enjoying themselves.
I worked in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and West Africa and not once was I told not to turn in for work due to the heat.
Planes were taking off and landing on runways that didn’t melt, and trains were running on tracks that didn’t buckle.
We are now back to normal here in the North East, cloudy skies and rain. I, and a lot of likeminded people, will be praying for some more of that lovely sunshine, which seems to put a spring in our steps and a smile on our faces. This world of ours will do its own thing no matter what we do to try to stop it, there are going to be years when the sun shines a lot hotter. Then in future years, those who follow us will be trying to find ways of heating themselves, because as sure as night follows day, there will be another ice age.
IAN NEIL, Middlesbrough
Theatre could pull in the crowds
MIDDLESBROUGH Council needs and tries to find ways of bringing people here for leisure activities when they will spend cash here.
I suggested the best way around that is to have something other towns don’t have – such as a large theatre in Stewart Park with a roof that can slide back in warm weather while people are entertained under the stars. We have excellent advance weather forecasts, so there’s no problem there and there’s a large car park.
The reply I received from an executive director was there was no evidence of residents wanting that. Does any reader recall being asked?
JOAN McTIGUE,
Ward Councillor
Boris isn’t quite on
the ropes yet
AT this point in time, Prime minister Boris Johnson is still hanging in there as the Champion. His corner has deserted the ringside, pulled the stool out from under him, given him lighter boxing gloves and tied his boot laces together, though
have not pulled his shorts down yet. Maybe they will leave that to the opposite corner, who will then blame Boris and report him to the standards and ethics committee.
Yet he still keeps bouncing back, even taking a selfie while doing the loop in a RAF typhoon fighter jet.
Boris battled Sir Keir and Labour when they tried to reverse a democratic result in the Brexit referendum, he broke the four-year deadlock in parliament over Brexit, got us out of the European Union. Then unfortunately along comes the pandemic, worldwide economic downturn, bully boy Putin and the Russian invasion of a sovereign country to deal with, not to mention his critics trying to depose him.
Truthfully speaking, Boris has manufactured some of his own political downfall.
But there is a really tough world out there. Every country has economic problems, so I hope the next champ and their chancellor have a sound knowledge of the UK’s finances.
Until then, Boris reigns.
GEOFF GREEN, Thornaby