MP's attack on women's hard won rights

This week, on abortion, Danny Kruger confirmed that he does not think women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy.

Women across the UK were saddened and shocked as they saw the unfolding news of the rollback of federal protection of abortion rights in the US, but would have been comforted by the UK’s position.

But it seems there are still people who want to deny rights to women in the UK that have long been fought for and assumed to be settled.

Mr Kruger was never a good choice for Devizes - parachuted into the constituency and causing the local conservative chair to resign.

Every time he speaks he proves he is out of touch with local opinion.

His devotion to Johnson is almost religious and at odds with many of his colleagues and most of his local supporters, let alone constituents.

He remains still a Brexit fanatic, unable to honestly critique how we are handling our new future outside the EU, and he fully supports the tearing up of the NI protocol just 18 months after his leader pushed it through to ‘get Brexit done’.

This latest, shocking statement that attacks women’s fundamental rights is too much.

As the people of Tiverton have shown, when you get a rotten MP and rotten leader, it might be time to place your vote in another box.

David Kinnaird

Chair

Devizes Liberal Democrats

Misleading numbers on rail workers' pay

Has any one else noticed that when talking about rail workers salaries politicians talk of the median salary and I think this is misleading, probably purposely misleading.

There are three types of average, mean, mode and median and usually when people think of average they think of mean average, that is adding all the numbers and dividing by the total amount of numbers. The mode average would be the most commonly occurring number. The median is the number in the middle.

So the median salary in the rail industry is the salary midway between the CEO and the lowest paid person, this inflates the total.

To use this instead of the mean is dishonest as it is done to create a false impression of railway salaries in the mind of the average person.

Steve Thompson

Norman Road

Swindon

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