Donald Trump may finally get his wall after all

Letters to the editor: our readers share their views. Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk

The US judicial system has begun to build a different kind of wall for Trump (PA)

For the past several years former US president Donald Trump’s vision was to build a huge wall across the Mexican border. Although he was unsuccessful in building that particular wall, it appears that the American judicial system has begun to build a different kind for him.

A federal judge recently ruled that Rudy Giuliani is liable for defamation against two Georgia election workers who he claimed rigged the 2020 election against Trump.

The courts may have just laid the “first brick” around President Trump. He may get his wall after all!

Mike Barrett

Address supplied

Brucie’s Brexit bonus

At long last we are finally to see one of the many promised benefits of Brexit: housebuilders will be able to build in environmentally sensitive areas without the need to worry about pollution! So they can join the water companies in the wanton pollution of our rivers and coastal waters.

In defending his decision, Michael Gove had the bare-faced cheek to somehow blame the EU for his party’s shameful record on house building and further claim that our rivers are now “cleaner” than before. Maybe he is referring to Thames pre-Bazalgette.

Geoff Forward

Stirling

Is this really the best choice?

Given all our other problems, I am not sure about the urgent need for a law forcing guilty criminals to appear for their sentencing.

If it is for victims, one ought to consider how well they are served by seeing murderers, and the like, trussed like turkeys, or in a situation where they could heap more abuse upon them.

Cole Davis

Norwich

Food for thought

Well done to the teachers who recently handed out food to children over fears they were getting hungry. One in four teachers brought in a bite to eat for children in the summer term according to the charity Fair Share which polled 9,421 teachers in England.

This in itself is the result of years of Tory austerity and cutbacks.

It is exactly why we need to get rid of this government, which has clearly taken its eye off the ball due to bitter in-fighting. We need to replace them with a Labour government with members like shadow education minister Stephen Morgan who will never allow such a disgraceful set of events to occur again.

Geoffrey Brooking

Havant, Hampshire

We need housing ... and clean water

With all the water companies being fined for dumping ever more raw sewage in our rivers and along the coast, it seems odd that the Tory government is to introduce legislation that permits house builders to cut corners when considering foul water disperse.

But more alarmingly, the Labour Party is ambivalent about the changes. There are votes to be lost and gained when it comes to housing, the NHS, the economy, transport, and utilities. Water shortages and sewage are two of the main areas of concern in Britain, as in other countries.

A government cannot be ambivalent about the health and welfare of its people, and then expect to be elected. Water treatment and the dumping of sewage have been an open sore for decades, with over 30 years of underinvestment by private water utilities. Meanwhile, huge profits have been taken by investors, mostly foreign companies.

Britain does indeed desperately need more affordable housing stock, but not at any expense to the environment. It’s madness to allow builders to do more harm to the environment by increasing the dangers of polluting our ecosystem. We need a healthy eco-system more than we need more housing.

Keith Poole

Basingstoke, Hampshire