Monday's letters

Then the paramedics arrived within 10 minutes. They were marvellous, they attended my husband with care and composure. They did everything for him and took him to hospital.

I would like to thank everyone involved. The two paramedics were Kevin and Clare. Thank you very much.

These people should get more praise for what they do.

The Royal was a nightmare, no one knew what they were doing. So many nurses and doctors running around, as they say, like headless chickens.

Every one there was so busy they didn’t have time to even ask who I was or what I wanted in A&E. I went in every cubicle looking for my husband, no one stopped me I just walked in. I could have been anyone. They have no system to stop anyone going into A&E.

I stopped a trainee nurse in the end to find him. Some people were on trolleys in the corridor. No discipline at all.

MRS C ROBERTS Worcester Immigration can’t be good for pensions SIR – I read the editorial “This country needs more young people” (Worcester News, November 2), with sadness because it means this country’s population dynamics are not understood. Without mass annual immigration there would be around a million people for each year of age in a lifetime of 70 years, million 10-year-olds, a million 20-year-olds etc, which means that in average terms those above the age of 60 would represent around 16 per cent of the population.

When Labour governed between 1994 and 2010 they poured around 8 million people into our country, say half a million per year. If every one of those people were aged 25 when they arrived in this country, those who arrived in 1994 will be aged 60 in 2029. By 2046 all the millions of immigrants Labour allowed into our country will be aged 60 or above. That means some 8 million foreigners Labour brought here will be swelling the ranks of the old, and the costs of pension provision from 2029 onwards. By 2046 there will be more than million immigrant people in our country over the age of 60. That explains why by 2039 around a third of our nation will be aged 60 or over. Our great big bulge, in the numbers of old people, is the direct responsibility of our (Labour) MPs and their immigration madness!

Sooner or later the Worcester News is going to have to cross the Rubicon. The bulge in the numbers of old people will literally die out – provide dour MPs don’t carry on pouring millions more into our country. That alas, is a forlorn hope. We are still pouring half a million people a year into our nation. In another three or four decades all those immigrants will be living on the pensioner’s handbag in their millions. It’s not pensioners as such that are the problem, but the madness of continual immigration that is going to destroy the ability of successive governments to pay pensions, and “top up pension benefits.”

N TAYLOR Worcester Promoted stories New Policy in UK – If you Don’t Have Life Insurance You Better Read This… (Money Saving News) Life Insurance companies profits take a big hit: Smart families uncover secrets to £10 life cover* (Money Saving News) Hospital tells great-grandmother she is pregnant (The Sun) MH370: woman claims to have found wreckage and skeletons (The Week UK) Barcelona request legal action after incident involving ex-Real Madrid duo (Give Me Sport) Why The Government Is Paying Homeowners £13,450 To Go Solar (The Eco Experts) Recommended by City’s bus lanes don’t have to go SIR – Rather than calling for the bus lanes to be removed – so that more cars can be crammed into the city centre – wouldn’t it be much more constructive to find out why poor old Worcester can’t make bus use a more popular choice?

One full bus could equal 40 cars going into the centre. Cities like Exeter, Chester and Oxford have made it work and have very well used bus services carrying passengers of all ages. Agreed, there are problems here at present; two London- ers that I met at a stop found it hilarious the last buses may be just after 6pm. But if the demand is there, services improve.

DEREK FEARNSIDE Worcester Share article Ignorant Ukip should learn some history SIR – It was funny to see the story of UKIP’s upside-down Union Flag and its message of help to Santa Claus.

St Nicholas was born and died in Turkey (but under the Romans’ yoke). He was nicknamed “Nikolaos the Wonderworker”. Maybe he’ll work wonders on the fascists in UKIP. How can they be so ignorant about our country as to fly its flag (with its three other “foreign” saints’ crosses) as a distress signal?

It’s great to live in such a great country, where we can tolerate absurd people. We know they won’t be punished for insulting flags and symbols; just embarrassed.

GERRY TAGGART Powick Soldiers shouldn’t be getting abandoned SIR – I strongly agree with Mrs Roberts’ letter regarding ex-soldiers often being homeless and out on the streets.

Surely the army has a duty of care. They have used these men, then abandoned them.

There should be some form of continued support for those soldiers who need it.

In the long-term it would save vast amounts of tax payers’ money, as quite often because of their circumstances these soldiers end up in prison or needing social services, which is very expensive.

The cost of one raid by fighter jets on Syria would be sufficient for at least one-year’s care for all those needing it. Perhaps the politicians should get their priorities right.

MRS S GARNER St John’s, Worcester