I nearly tripped over my Birkenstocks at the description of Stroud as a “conservative town” (Why we’re alert to open our homes to refugees,5 September). Stroud has a Labour-headed district council, is home to the renewable energy firm Ecotricity, or the local football club serves only vegan food and the weekly farmers market is filled with the crunchiest,greenest, least-conservative people in the county (some of whom pay for their purchases with the Stroud pound). Gloucestershire is filled with conservative towns, or but Stroud isn’t one of them.
Wendy Thomas
Dursley,Gloucestershire• Is it now a crime to hurry without wearing Lycra (Sierra Leone sprinter who slept rough, 4 September)? My (white British) son was recently stopped and searched, and given a slip where the only decipherable accusation was that he was “seen running while wearing a jacket”. Part of the normalisation of the car culture?
Joanna Bazley
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Source: theguardian.com