Letters

I understand and share the concerns of voters locally about pressing issues, such as shortages of affordable housing, shortages of school places and lengthening queues for NHS healthcare. However, are these issues really caused by our membership of the EU or perhaps something else? Let’s take a quick look, for instance, at the current housing crisis, which has resulted from ...

The status quo is not an option. It is not on the ballot paper, whichever way we vote things can not stay the same as they are now. A remain vote would mean that we would be subservient to Brussels politicians for ever. Pity our poor youth! A remain vote would give a mandate from the British people, to a ...

While I’m no fan of the Church of England, I’m delighted that the Archbishop of Canterbury seems to have echoed my views in The Mail on Sunday (the UKIP hand-sheet) a week after my letter was published in the press. Put simply he believes, as do I, that Britain should have a vision for the world – “a vision of ...

You should vote leave on June 23. Why? We had a choice of jobs before we joined the EU, pay was much better then than now. The only people this benefits is those in business, legal or illegal, with many folk on minimum or less than minimum wage. Most jobs are now only part-time. It may, on paper, show that ...

Young people who have decided to vote “in” at the EU referendum, or who simply can’t be bothered to vote at all, need to think again. It’s your future that’s at stake and taking the advice of self-serving elites who have lined their pockets at the public’s expense is a dangerous game. This country is on the skids with a ...

On Wednesday, June 8, while walking our puppy in Bourne Woods, she got excited and jumped up at an elderly couple and got them a little muddy, mainly the gentleman’s trousers. After apologising I offered to pay for dry cleaning but in the heat of the moment I don’t think he was listening. If he would like to contact me ...

As the EU Referendum approaches, the arguments, particularly on the Remain side, become more shrill. You could be forgiven for assuming that the risks of staying put are insignificant. Yet it seems to me they are at least as great. Going forward, the EU has to secure the future of the single currency, face up to the insolvency of the ...

I belong to one of the biggest unions in Britain and Ireland, Unite the union. Europe has done quite a lot for women – this is what some of our women members are saying. “Being in Europe means that the UK is bound by common rules which seek to ensure protections for women in the workplace, tackle gender discrimination and ...

Why spend £1m on a new roundabout when speed cameras should slow traffic and also be a lot cheaper? The main problem is the nut that holds the wheel! David Head Spalding

I don’t know about you, but I’m fed up with the clanging statistics and jarring soundbites of this referendum. Brexit is such a black box, such an unknown, that it seems leaving would be the equivalent of stepping across the event horizon of a black hole. I’m going to save you a headache and not wade further into this messy ...

Us British born are always being told to be more accepting of immigrants but this works both ways. I wanted an ingredient which I felt I could purchase in a Polish supermarket so walked in and joined the queue. All the language spoken was Polish and when I was spoken to I asked if they spoke English. The whole shop ...

The EU debate now enters its final phase. The Remain camp have given up their claim that to leave is a leap into the dark. They are now forecasting exactly what Brexit will entail. Loads of details have appeared but a general “end of life as we know it” seems a fair summary of their opinions. The Labour and Liberal ...

As reported in The Voice on May 26, Roger Gambba-Jones says his priority is the long term viability of the bi-weekly market. It wasn’t his priority when it was closed down for a week to accommodate the fair. And what about the businesses on the High Street and their long term viability? Doug Stinton Holbeach

I would like to extend a warm thank you to Tesco colleagues and customers from Lincolnshire for their dedicated efforts to raise funds for Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to date. Since the three-year National Charity Partnership between the two charities and Tesco launched in January 2015, customer donations, along with store colleagues’ fundraising, have contributed £7.14m ...

I live on Park Road. The speed limit on this road is 30mph and I often watch traffic go past my home, and always see motorists on their phone, talking or looking down texting, not watching where they are going. Over time it seems to have got worse. It was school-run time, several mums were speeding with their kids in ...

Here for your readers are some more “facts” regarding the EU “in or out” vote. The UK’s trade deficit with the rest of the EU was circa £61.5billion in 2014 (ONS), which grows relatively poorer as new members join (just wait for Turkey who the Conservative government, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all want into the EU), at what cost ...

At the South Holland Centre on Monday last week, there was an event advertised as a panel of academics and experts answering questions from the audience about the EU and June referendum. The hall was about half full and they did try hard to seem impartial. Unfortunately a simple Google search revealed that six of the seven people taking questions ...

We are completely amazed to read in The Voice the latest food hygiene rating on Wimberley Hall. We have used this wonderful establishment since it opened, an asset to the area. Most certainly cleanliness and hygiene in the restaurant and the loos and the farm shop are obviously paramount, so how the preparation behind the scenes could fall to a ...

My main reason for remaining in Europe is that life under the current Tory government, without the protection of the EU, will be even more intolerable than it is at present; also all the Right wing/fascist organisations within the UK will receive a fillip and stir up hatred and bigotry within our diverse communities. My aim is to connect with ...

Last Tuesday, May 17, my wife fell from her wheelchair at the car park exit from Springfields garden centre, and hit her head on the ground. Although painful, luckily she was not seriously hurt, but was tended to by a member of staff and a First Responder. I would like to thank this member of staff, I think his name ...