‘Don’t close York Christmas Market on Tuesdays’ – letter

CAN you imagine, an English coach tour company regularly running holiday trips to tulip bulb fields, and festivals etc, into Europe.

They advertise months in advance tours to the fabulous Christmas Markets in Germany, only to arrive and find it closed.

They have booked hotels, for maybe two or three days, but find it’s the one day that the Christmas Markets are closed because blue badge users need to visit the city centre in that German city.

York had nine million visitors last year, we need those visitors, that is why we are, in York, building more and more hotels to accommodate them, not to mention the bars and restaurants, that depend on them.

I would ask our City of York Council to be very careful before closing our very successful Christmas Market on Tuesday as proposed, there will be a very large ripple effect on many other local and European businesses.

Stuart Wilson,

Vesper Drive,

Acomb

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Where is the pride in Britain?

AN indication of how low morale and pride in one’s country has sunk was revealed this week when a survey of under 30s has shown half of them would not be prepared to fight for their country.

This is a shocking indictment on those politicians and their policies from all parties which have governed in recent years.

Also, one has to ask all the Labour MPs who appear on the media saying they believe Starmer over his version of the Mandelson affair, are you purposely being blind, deaf or totally dumb to what is happening in the real word in which the rest of us inhabit, or do you enjoy being puppets on a string in Labour’s circus of a government?

Peter Rickaby,

Moat Way,

Brayton

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