Let's charge foreign drivers to come here
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I CONTACTED my MP recently detailing my total costs on a trip to Athens and back, then suggested what seemed to me a reasonable, fair solution to equalling the so-called playing field at no cost to the government.
It seemed to my simple mind that imposing a form of entry fee to the UK on my foreign colleagues. collected by the ferry companies and passed to the government, would be the cheapest and most profitable system. At a daily charge of £100, I am sure the Treasury would rake in more than £200m a year for very little.
An even easier solution is tor Britain to stop buying so much crap from abroad and start producing its own. My European colleagues don't want to come here.
Come to that, neither do I: Britain sucks.
Peter F Orr by email
I'm a diabetic driver
REGARDING Dan Carter's letter ('Help petition government to review unfair diabetes law' CM 23 September) I feel I have to disagree with the government's stance that all 'Iype I diabetics be banned. There are good reasons why someone with Type l diabetes cannot drive. I have Type 2 diabetes and operate three 44-tonne artics in the UK and Europe. I agree Type l diabetes can be managed properly and some Type 1 diabetics might be eligible to drive. But not all.
Gordon Burnett by email