CLLR Flo Clucas states that Liverpool and Manchester are not economic rivals and should co-operate.
The present Lib-Dem administration may have signed up to the ill-conceived (for Liverpool) accord with Manchester several years ago, but this simply reinforces existing Manchester regional policy. Surely Cllr Clucas is concerned that when the Government Office North West closed its Liverpool office and moved to Manchester, that all regional HQs and government departments are Manchester-based?
Where has been the recent public sector investment in Liverpool to match the proposed Whitehall of the North, the BBC relocation to Salford, the proposed Royal Opera House of the north and Metrolink expansion?
Only last week, the Post ran an editorial stressing the importance that the planned high-speed rail link runs to Liverpool as well as to Manchester.
By all means, let’s co-operate but let’s do so on a basis of equality and parity. Anything else demeans our city.
C Parker, L3
Join our reunion
WE ARE holding a reunion for Moor Lane Methodist youth club in Crosby on Saturday, April 17, at the church hall. The club ran from 1961-1981 and the leader for all that time, Mr Blundell, will be 80 in May.
He is looking forward to meeting former members. For further details, please email moorlaneyouthclub@live.co.uk
Judith Harrison, Longton, Preston
Drugs lottery
I'M SURE many Daily Post readers are aware of the postcode lottery that exists for the accessing of drugs by cancer patients. A petition to campaign against the process of accessing new cancer drugs for all cancer patients as been set up online.
At the end of the day, it does not matter what type of cancer it is, patients are being denied drugs that are widely available and licensed and approved in other countries.
Therefore, we must campaign together across all cancer groups to call for a complete overhaul of the current system.
Too frequently, we are reading of cancer treatments being denied to patients. Please click on the link below and add your support to this whole campaign. It will take a minute to fill in the details. Please pass on the details to your friends and supporters. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NewCancerDrugs/
Terry Kavanagh, L18
Odd approach
IT’S a bit rich for Chris Davies MEP (Letters, March 4) to call for Parliament to “stop ducking the issue” on the right to die. No one ducks (or quacks) quite like the Liberal Democrats; their ducking out of giving the British people a referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty is proof of that.
Mr Davies’s letter reveals once again the rather odd Lib- Dem approach to matters of life and death. Their enthusiasm for giving people rights to die and abort their babies, while opposing capital punishment for murderers, rather undermines their woeful attempt to gain the moral high ground by, eg, opposing the wars.
In these troubling and confused times, we need a leader who has hope and faith in God, so that sanctity of life is respected.It appears we cannot trust the Lib-Dems with such matters.
David Thomas, Hoylake
Pot hole repair
INEVITABLY, many roads are full of potholes following the exceptionally cold winter. But, well done the Highways Agency, for having repaired two large holes in the Wallasey slip road leading onto the M53 at Bidston.
These were potentially dangerous and I, like many others, I'm sure, had a scary encounter with them.
It is easy to criticise but we often forget to praise.
So, on behalf of grateful motorists, thank you, Highway Agency.
Philip Griffiths, UKIP Parliamentary candidate for Wirral West Š
Learn from faith
FAITH schools have always been around, it is where the older generation learned how to respect each other’s faith and person.
And it worked. We would pray in unison and then after a day of learning.
Then we would go into the wider world and mix with children and adults of different faiths, respect each other whilst learning a little from each other.
Also, it makes for decent, respectful people without the dog-eat-dog attitude we have today.
Life is about learning from experience.
Mrs V Owen, L21
Stop school attacks
I AM tired of David Cameron being pilloried because he went to public school.
Tony Blair and Alistair Darling had a similarly privileged education.
The important question is whether the person can do the job, not what school he went to.
Mrs L Molloy, Maghull
