Support British manufacturing

FURTHER to the NHS debate, I failed to mention one of the most potential savings emanating from your excellent article recently on Surgical Innovations.

Their research into the manufacture of re-usable surgical instruments augers well to extend Yorkshire manufacturing, which is an area, I am convinced, that should be strongly supported by the Government, bearing in mind manufacturing has fallen into serious decline and everything possible should be done to encourage its revival.

Another company which springs to mind is ITM Power, who specialise in hydrogeneration as an alternative fuel source.

Why be a nation of shopkeepers selling imported goods when we desperately need to put the great back into Great Britain by encouraging manufacturing and creating jobs?

US egotism

From: R Cartlidge, Storth Lane, Wales, Sheffield.

THE history of America’s mendacious past is fraught with insidious, eccentric egoism. President Assad’s involvement in the use of poison gas has been unsolved. Yet it strives persistently to render him guilty without firm foundation.

Assad is classed categorically to being like Hitler – such typical jargon of America’s hypocrisy! This approach to Assad is of warring intent; it breaches the preponderance of the majority of people.

The whole region may well erupt in all-out war – something John Kerry appears willing to risk by escalating tensions.

Russia’s diplomatic role has judiciously curtailed this crazy fulfilment.

Salami slicing

From: Jack Kinsman, Stainton Drive, Grimsby.

THE EU is at the ‘Control Game’ again.

A lady in Europe House in Smith Square in London said: “We are bringing in the European Birth Certification to assist the business traveller, therefore the British Birth Certificate will be discontinued.”

Says who?

This is just another ‘salami slicing operation’ where Great Britain’s powers of self-rule are thinly sliced away every single day without a murmur from our elected Government, the Opposition, or the House of Lords.

Where is it all going to end? We are already nearly too late to do anything about anything in our own country.

Debating point

From: Terry Duncan, Greame Road, Bridlington, East Yorkshire.

DAVID Cameron refuses a face-to-face debate with SNP leader Alex Salmond on next year’s vote on Scotland wrestling its grip from English control.

Surely Scots worldwide and not only in Scotland – where the vote is only open to all races, including English, because they reside there – should be allowed a public discussion.