Readers' letters - December 6
I agree with your correspondent Mile Lacey, regarding banks (WP December 5).
I went to a local NatWest branch a couple of years ago.
While there, at the counter, I was told that, next time, I could use internet banking.
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Hide AdI thought, I could, but if all your customers decided to do that, would you lose your job?
An ideal world would have the choice of mobile, internet and face-to-face banking in branches. Of course, there will be those individuals who say, it’s progress.
Times change.
But I feel for those who lose their jobs and, for those of us, in particular the elderly, who aren’t able to or don’t have access to the internet.
And if they don’t trust the internet (haven’t we all heard of hacking scandals?) why shouldn’t they have the choice of going face-to-face?
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Hide AdAh, but we live in a selfish ultra-capitalist society and with our anti-NHS, anti-social housing, anti-poor and anti-environment Government in charge, not giving people consideration is all par for the course.
Jane
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Ode to old Lancashire
Although I live in Cornwall, I am a native Lancastrian, born and bred in the Wigan district. Might I please submit this poem which is on the subject of the amalgamation of the Southern Lake District as one county?
I know this was many years ago but the subject will still resonate with many and perhaps bring it to the attention of generations who might be unaware.
Three Shires
When Lancashire was home to me
I loved the majesty of three,
I swore my heart for all my time,
devotion that shows no decline.
In southern times of restless nights
my dreams are of those mountain heights
as in the dark reruns past time
when I lived in that land of mine.
Again on slopes with joy I go
through juniper and purple sloe,
my spirit soaring with delight
whether in mist or bright sunlight.
And though those three are named as one
with Westmorland forever gone
in Cumbria my heart will be
in that fine County, once the three.
Rick Howarth
Former Wigan
resident
Carry on EU – an unfunny farce
When it was time for the EU referendum, I could see both sides of the argument.
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Hide AdYes, there were definitely issues with the EU – too large, too inefficient, too bureaucratic, too expensive...
But what was the alternative? Where was the plan? So I voted remain, purely for the reason of ‘the better the devil you know’.
And increasingly, I feel that, whatever the faults of the union, to remain (at least for now) would have been the right option.
Every time I hear about the never-ending negotiations with the EU, it’s like an increasingly unfunny farce.
And now the outdated DUP are getting involved, thinking of their own dogma rather than what is best for Northern Ireland as a whole.
Do we really get the politicians we deserve?
Molly Clare
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