Having just read the article regarding Harwich port not being ready for Brexit, confirms something I have thought for a number of years.

Is Harwich earmarked only as a token investment and development area, in other words promise anything the residents want to hear then run out of money apart from a token amount to keep everyone quiet.

After all why invest in Harwich?

Within a very few years a lot of Harwich and the surrounding areas will flood leaving a small village only reached by boat.

Harwich may be used for a while after Brexit as an extra port, but that will be limited, and will only need a very small amount of investment. There is already a world class port just across the river, with excellent train and road access, whereas Harwich has an inadequate decaying road system and a branch line rail service.

What would be the point of throwing massive amounts of money at Harwich only to see it disappear under the water in the near future.

How often have the residents of Harwich been promised that this or that only for funds to run out before anything does happen?

For a long time now Harwich has been used as a people dumping ground, maybe Government thinking is that older residents in the Harwich area could see out their lives in Harwich before the floods arrive.

That concept would be fine for me as I like living here the way the town is now, but they could at least turn our hospital into a fully functioning small cottage hospital and have a few extra police on the beat.

Steve Holmes

Stour Close, Harwich