SIR – Re MP’s View: Robin Walker (August 16), it’s the done thing to talk up the Worcester Festival, but I was disgusted when shown an unrecyclable plastic Worcester Festival flag, that will last for a thousand years, before becoming long chain molecules in our environment.
Our MP makes much of affordable housing. Our MPs have made housing unaffordable by pouring countless millions of people into our country, regardless of the impact upon the cost and availability of
housing, or the impact an endless supply of cheap labour would have on the ability of our people to earn
their way through life.
And let’s not forget we taxpayers have to pay billions in extra taxes, to fund so called Universal Benefits, to top up lousy wages, whilst the “Robber Baron” class prospers.
I am not impressed by technology. “Technogeeks” are  destroying jobs, via their activities. We have self-service tills, the virtual end of cheques, the growth of “tap cards,” phone transactions, internet banking etc. along with the closure of local  banks, and the hundreds of millions being scammed from people, via banking fraud.
Technology is annihilating decent jobs, so how are millions to earn a living, to buy commerce’s products and services, and thus generate commerce’s profits?
Aren’t 100,000,000 million of us already impoverished in Europe, as computers, robots, and AI do the work humans once did?
Moreover I resent the way technology is being employed to constantly watch us, and record everything we do.
Then there’s his lauding of John Sommers, author of the 1707 Act
of Union. I’m one who is sick of the utterings of “Wee Bernie,” Scotland’s First Minister.
If we English had a vote on Scots Independence, Hadrian’s Wall would have to be rebuilt!
N TAYLOR
Worcester