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Paradise lost and home thoughts from abroad
• IN response to Tim Hadley’s letter (Mayor Johnson should take note of Giuliani and Bloomberg, June 5).
I’ll bet while Mr Hadley is in New York he drinks in English fake theme pubs to remind him of home, buys English-style tea bags at Marks and Spencer Manhattan, religiously watches two-year-old reruns of EastEnders on BBC USA, all the while keeping an eye out for Arsenal’s progress in the Premier League.
I happen to come from the country he claims is paradise on Earth, and wonder if perhaps someone might ask him what he thinks of living under a quasi-fascist presidential regime that has redefined global terror to the third world, and has untold millions of its own citizens too poor to pay for the most rudimentary health care – thanks to its slavish obsequiousness to the pharmaceutical cartels that more or less push drugs like Prozac and Vicodin with a zeal that puts to shame any of our local Camden Market dope sellers.
Furthermore, the entire USA is so much in debt that as soon as China decides to pull the plug on its economy, we will see a return to the dust bowl conditions seen in The Grapes of Wrath, leaving the rest of the world facing what the USA has been since Teddy Roosevelt: a three-year-old child holding the equivalent of a .357 magnum.
In fact, you really have to wonder why Mr Hadley even bothers to come back here. Oh yes... to lecture us.
Jack Willis
Tanza Road, NW3
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