SIR: Your story "Red tape keeps couple poles apart", interested me in the fact that this gentleman who in a sense, I feel sorry for, stated that the couple can only live together if the state supports his wife.
This country is already overburdened with state hand-outs, overcrowded with immigrants and long hospital waiting lists. If he misses his wife so much, why doesn't he go and live in Poland, as he appears to visit there quite regularly.
I have lived in this country all my life, served in three major battle zones during the war and never received a brass farthing or a word of thanks from the state up to the time of writing this letter.
J Boydell
Jutland Grove, Westhoughton
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