The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Regarding the letter from Mr T Bown, published in The Voice on October 29.
The letter had a variety of words the gentleman may have been hoping the poorer educated indigenous people would not understand.
Today a three-year-old asks Alexa, Alexa the AI replies. The older siblings go Googling to find out what the words and meanings are.
In that letter it makes people, like myself, dumb and dumber. I may have mental health issues it reads.
As an ex shop assistant of 30-years I’m dismayed to find out I was curt and truculent in work.
In the letter it suggests that the indigenous have a right hook with no mention of hand or left arm, so I assume therefore I am disabled.
As for the tradesmen/persons, qualified or not, he may require one, one day in the future.
Then he may find himself on top of Whaplode church bell tower battlements calling out over the Fens “I need a tradesman”. Good luck.
The council staff are well trained to deal with all the types of persons like gentleman Bown.
After all he may not himself have any etiquette, compassion or kindness.
The next time Mr Bown takes a ride to Spalding with his mate chip, I suggest they look for the red ER signs (emergency route/exit route, found at A16/A151 roundabout). Now while Mr Bown is deciding which route to take, his mate chip may have jumped off his left shoulder and found some music by Eric Burden and the Animals entitled ‘We Gotta Get Out of This Place’.
Being a true Fenman, both parents born in the Fen and me being born St Johns Fen, I feel his letter is rude, arrogant, degrading to the indigenous born people myself and a small number of others.
It could be seen as ethically on the side of racist to the indigenous Fen people, after all there are laws to protect minority groups these days. It is an offence to label a small group of people with a specific tag.
Well me I am damn proud to be born a true Fenman and a Lincolnshire Yellow Belly.
Rob Coleman
Holbeach
