THE daftest thing about all this cash driven Vale Hospital deprivation, is that the ill-informed, over confident architect of all the mayhem, quite happy to find infinite money for a civilian targeted and unjustifiable war, judged by the Nuremberg protocols that I was brought up to believe in, will shortly retire with a fat pension, expensive 24/7 security cover, lucrative American lecture tours, and a soft sheepskin to sit on in the House of Lords. Most of it paid for of course by our taxes.

So much for people's choice and democracy. Why on earth to we allow it?

MICHAEL T PARKER, Main Street, Sedgeberrow.