£4m square is a waste of money
From my research among friends and acquaintances, I find the overwhelming majority are saying "if it is so imperative to spend £4 million by the city council, then in these difficult times it is really not appropriate to spend this sum on the proposed Jubilee Square".
I fail to understand why the city mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, is pushing to spend this £4 million on the project when it is apparent the majority of the citizens disapprove.
I also feel it is wrong for the mayor to take sides at such an early stage in the planning proceedings, or is it a "done deal" and the offer of public consultation a charade and therefore meaningless?
Furthermore, the artist's impression of the area really bears no relation or resemblance to the area in question, as the site is very much in a built-up area and confined space, not as virtually depicted.
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Peter Baxter, Leicester.
While I agree with the removal of child benefit from well-off, I think the system should be abolished altogether.
When it was introduced in 1975, average wages were very low but today they are high and it is possible to live comfortably.
The system has created a way of life for a lot of people, disabling marriage and stable relationships.
The system encourages fraud and dishonesty and discourages young people and some adults from standing on their own two feet.
They know if they have children, they will be entitled to social housing and every benefit available.
Having children is a privilege, not an entitlement. Therefore, those who wish to have children must also have the means to bring them up as responsible citizens.
There is no such a thing as free lunch – what is free for somebody, somebody else is paying for it.
Elliot Akinwumi, Blaby.
I was delighted recently to discover and purchase a biography on Muriel Spark, famous for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
I was even more delighted to find the author, Martin Stannard, is professor of modern English literature at the University of Leicester.
Reginald Dunkley, Leicester.
Comments
by graydjames
Thursday, January 10 2013, 6:48PM
“I think Elliott Akinwumi is confused. I don't think even the most extreme right winger would argue that Child Benefit has disabled marriage and stable relationships or that it has encouraged fraud and dishonesty and discouraged young people and some adults from standing on their own two feet.
I think he is thinking about children's and working tax credits which is something quite different and which is often made the subject of these accusations - though not by me!
Also there is a really annoying National Lottery advert positioned right over this window in which I am typing so that I am unable to see what I am writing. This web site is getting so ridiculously crowded out by adverts that it will very soon by unworkable. I cannot get rid of it.
Damn!!!!”
by Graham_LE8
Thursday, January 10 2013, 3:28PM
“I can only assume that Elliot's presumptious opinion is borne out of either never having had children, or he's always been soooo well paid that a sudden unexpected demand for school shoes/replacement lost PE kit or somesuch doesn't impinge on his disposable income (unlike the rest of us mortals)...”
by Stoned
Thursday, January 10 2013, 10:51AM
“Child Benefit, or Family Allowance as it used to be called, was first paid just after WW2 when it was available only for the second and subsequent children in a bid to re-build the population after the devastating loss of life during the war. It was rebranded Child Benefit in the mid 1970's and paid for the first and subsequent children. During the 1950's I well recall a weekly trip to the post office on Ayston Road in Braunstone for the 8/- (40p) payable to my mother for my brother and I.”