In search of the Midas Touch

ALTHOUGH I am not sporty, I couldn’t help noticing the end of the football transfer window and the huge sums of money involved and changing hands (Yorkshire Post, September 3).

There seems to be no shortage of money where football is concerned, so at the very least, it must be worth considering employing somebody from the world of football, to be our Chancellor?

The same could be said of anybody from Microsoft, currently paying “a very large amount” to buy Vodafone!

They obviously have “the Midas Touch”, probably because they live in the real world – our politicians don’t. Just a thought!

Identity crisis

From: John Watson, Hutton Hill, Leyburn.

ONCE again the small amount of sovereignty that remains with us is to be eroded as Europe insists on stamping every birth certificate with the European flag.

We have fought wars and millions of lives have been sacrificed to enable us to keep our British identity, and now some junior clerk in Brussels, with a rubber stamp, takes away from me without my consent one of the things I am most proud of – my British nationality.

So now where are my loyalties supposed to lie? Do I still pay homage to my Queen or is that going to be eventually taken away from me? Even now we are supposed to fly the European flag over municipal buildings and have the European emblem on our car number plates.

Lifeboat debt

From: Andrew Mercer, Guiseley, Leeds.

YOUR Editorial (Yorkshire Post, September 4) rightly highlighted the debt of gratitude that we all owe to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and it would be nice to think that their appeal for a new craft to launch its new Scarborough lifeboat could be championed by the likes of Welcome to Yorkshire in its promotional work.

We must never take the work of such rescue services for granted.