ACCORDING to our council, the phoenix is rapidly rising from the ashes in Wakefield with the regeneration work.
And yet the civic society is unimpressed with the Seams sculpture.
Wouldn't Crown Court Yard have been just as good without the £20,000 lump of stone with a slot in it?
We then read on in the Express and see that the estimated cost of flood defen
ces will be in the region of £10m, with the work to be carried out over several years.
It is doubtful this news will hearten the people living in the 2,000 homes that were flooded.
Does the race to get things of culture in place come before sanitation and the welfare of the public, who are already hard-pressed to pay for their homes without the added worry of flooding?
People were on this planet before theatres, museums and libraries.
Don't they have any say in the order of priorities?
We soon put hands in pockets to let other countries' peoples get fresh water to their homes.
In doing so, do we neglect our own people, who do not wish for all the water they are forced to have, due to a lack of foresight by the people who are greedy for fame and fortune, people that we elect supposedly to look after us.
This also applies to central government and the long list of follies it has invested in with money it did not, and still does not have, for example the dome, the Northern non-existent Assembly, and the wars.
When will sanity replace egotism and let alphabetically "B" for basics come before "C" for construction in their correct order?
People come first.
James Anthony Bulmer
Peel Street, Horbury
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