THE A&E department at Poole Hospital, as most know, is scheduled to be closed and shifted to Bournemouth. This means that many thousands of people every year in the Poole area who self-admit to Poole A&E will find it very hard indeed to travel seven miles to the other side of Bournemouth.

And all the more so with children and the elderly and disabled, it will be hugely difficult.

And to make this policy decision all the more disastrous, we note the M1 bus service, which used to go from Poole directly to Royal Bournemouth Hospital, no longer goes to the hospital. You now have to change bus twice. Typically, it will take an hour and a half.

It would beggar belief, but then we have to face up to the fact we have politicians in power along with commercial operators who are entirely indifferent to providing what is best for local areas. Just take the case of Christchurch forced to join in the one size fits all super-council project.

And clearly all going to get all the worse with the insanity of Brexit. What other country in the world, with trading wars spreading between the US, China, and others, takes the dense decision to pull out of the world's most stable and successful trading block, the European Union.

I rest my case. Britain - one of the worst managed industrial countries in the world in massive dysfunctional decline before our eyes.

STUART FLEMMING

Alder Road, Poole