THE HERALD FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10 2017


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staff. The NHS, based upon


collective ethics, free of insurance haggling, is the most efficient organisation in the world. The explanation of the years


of its struggle, goes far beyond a lack of money, to the basic beliefs of those chosen as Directors, like the Directors in British banks and elsewhere. Such people are quite unsuited


ever to understand collective ethics, the inspired dream of Clem Attlee. And even the public now, is incapable to see the difference. Anonymous


WIND TURBINES


DEAR SIR, With reference to last week’s


letter about the turbines in Carmarthenshire, I spent some time in Dolgram Pencader a few


years ago on a friend’s farm, which was based on a large hill overlooking Pencader and Brecha Forest on the high ground. Mr Jones, my proprietor,


allowed me to explore the surrounding area including the famous Pencader tunnel – about half a mile long – which was constructed in the 1860s from Cardigan to Carmarthen. Pencader station was one time there too, but, now long abandoned, the tunnel is accessible with difficulties. It is overgrown with large


banks where you can clearly still see the boring holes, where they put charges in the rocks. A very interesting place, the line eventually opened to Carmarthen station and this to Milford Haven branch as well. Mr Jones and I spoke recently


about the wind turbines in that area and he told me they were going to build 34 turbines in the forest. I managed to trace a history


book on the life of Pencader for him a couple of years ago when I was doing his family tree. The present farm he inhabits is only dated 1822 by a Mr Simon Jones, a relative of his. Generations of the same family lived and worked there long before. There are ruins of some


cottages there and very old stone built barns with stone steps in them and cobble stones in the court yard dating from a much earlier period no doubt. Some old quarry site nearby


the area is steeped in history and I understand there is a regeneration history group there on site.


Anonymous HOUSING POLICIES


DEAR SIR, It is grotesque that Mrs Thatcher is presented to the public


as a politician who favoured home ownership, when she devoted her whole life to the depression of wage levels of working people, so that salaries could never afford to buy a home. It is true that she sold off the nation’s municipal housing at a knockdown price, but that was only for her two aims of cutting taxes for the wealthy, and depriving the poor of homes. Mrs Thatcher made no secret


of her lifelong Tory motives, that the poor must learn to be self- reliant, like her virtuous self, and be forced never to depend on any totally undesirable Welfare State. Not only did Mrs Thatcher


not believe in a ‘property-owning society’; she did not believe in society. The idea that a Tory


Government is now retreating from a policy of house ownership which they never supported in a hundred years, to try to be kind to citizens renting property, is ludicrous.


Tories favour a class-


dominated society, where the wealthy own most of the property, from which they might derive even greater wealth from rent, while those who rent, will be born with no financial state in the country of their birth, and die in that same condition. All this has been argued over


for a century, and the lies of a Tory national press cannot change past reality. Listen to Right Wing


columnists who try to persuade you, that owning nothing, all the days of your life, is just as good as the ideal of Liberal and Labour political parties, that in every civilised country, it should be possible for almost every citizen to possess enough of their nation’s wealth, to be able to buy a home for his family.


Anonymous


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