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Three cheers to Kate Copstick for her article “Don’t ‘feel’ traumatised, get out and do something” (Perspective, 17 May).

For a long time, the DA has been calling on the premier to procure electricity from independent power producers in order to mitigate the risks of load-shedding and over-reliance on Eskom.

I have been watching the energy debate withnote-0 ever-mountingnote-1 exasperation. On the one hand, we have the Government trying to persuade us to “invest” in noisy, inefficient heat pumps and, on the other, the SNP trying to cover Scotland with Chinese-built wind turbines, which are also vastly expensive, blotting the landscape, killing wildlife and requiring a subsidy when it’s too windy for them to operate.

As a former MEP I am appalled at the lack of debate over Britain sending cruise missiles to Ukraine with the potential to strike Russia and provoke anote-0 nuclear war in which Scotland, with its nuclear base at Faslane, would be anote-1 target.

The announcement of a 29% increase in First Home Finance subsidy by minister of human settlements Mmamoloko Kubayi will assist in curbing the runaway costs of affordability for first-time home buyers.