I WOULD like to make some comments about Canon Woods’ article in the May 12 edition of the New Blackmore Vale.

Evacuation of British citizens from Sudan. I agree with him on this topic.

Profit. Come on, get real! This is what unfettered capitalism is all about.

If you as a chief executive of a public company find that you have a significant amount of cash available you can either plough it back into the business as an investment or pay yourself a large bonus and then hang on until you get sacked.

Evidence exists that a proportion of top execs are psychopaths – you are always going to get this form of abuse. I leave it to you to decide what’s likely to happen.

Strikes. If NHS workers could affect the pockets of bosses and shareholders and no-one else, I’m sure they would. However, I can’t think of any public industrial action which has done this.

At the present time, thankfully, the NHS has few shareholders and I’m sure most people would like to keep it this way.

The Government has consistently and cynically exploited the fact that nurses have been reluctant to strike in the past.

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We in this country want European levels of public service but don’t want to pay European levels of tax.

The difference is made up by underfunding the wages of public sector workers. However, at some point, the camel’s back will break, which is where we are now!

Republican movement. Canon Woods is probably right that a lot of people would probably not want the likes of Boris Johnson or Tony Blair et alia as their elected head of state.

But this is because these people have made strategic important decisions and done something on the international stage.

Admittedly, some of those great decisions have been less than satisfactory but a lot of them have been good.

With a bad elected head of state you can at least vote them out. With a bad hereditary head of state, you are stuck with them until they die!

PHILIP JOHN DALE
Bradford Abbas