Letters to the Editor – 14/02 – East London, Scots uncertainty, Best of Twitter
East London
[Re: The Docklands legacy can help fix London’s chronic housing crisis, Wednesday]
Andrew Adonis’s proposal for a new Ebbsfleet town seems muddled. The area needs a Thames Estuary airport, bringing jobs and all the knock-on economic benefits. Yet Adonis’s Go East report favours Heathrow expansion – hardly designed to move the economic centre of gravity eastwards.
Mark Cawthron
The solution to the housing shortage is not to create new towns, but to loosen planning restrictions to allow more high rise developments.
Robert Sandall
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Scots uncertainty
[Re: Osborne’s claims that Scotland couldn’t use the pound don’t stack up, yesterday]
I have no doubt that it would be possible for Scotland to stand on its own two feet in terms of currency. But the Scottish National Party hasn’t properly considered the issue. How can we vote for a party that has not fully thought through issues of currency, euro membership and other economic factors that will affect the future of its people? They are basing the future on assumptions. I like the idea of independence, but not with this bunch in charge. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only choice.
Name withheld
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BEST OF TWITTER
Gold advances to $1,300 per troy ounce for first time since November.
@nr_zero
Sadly the unemployment rate in Greece continues to get worse. It was 28 per cent in November.
@notayesmansecon
Pimco’s El-Erian : “We cannot continue on in a world dependent on central banks.” Simply put, simply true
@steve_hanke
UK shares will be much higher in a couple of years; valuations still reasonable and economy improving.
@SimonatSaltus