P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Mon 20 Jan 00:45/45 1/7 Have your views aired on the big news issues. Write 80 word litters to: BBC Cjefax, Room 7013, Television Cjntte, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ or E-mail Cjefax@bbc.co.uk or fax us on 0181-749-6734 The editor reserves the right to edit/ omit litters. Please give a full address and telephone number. Headlines 101 Extra 140 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Weather 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 2 145 Mon 20 Jan 03:56/08 2/7 ] It is undemocratic to give the Prime Minister — of any party — discretion to select the date of a Genital Election. This is invariably chosen to give the Government an advantage over opposition parties. We should adopt the American system, where the Government is elected for a specific period — to the day, unless defeated in the interim. Tony Thornj, Bordon Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Weather 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 2 145 Mon 20 Jan 00:54/46 3/7 Every winter with the first snows there is disruption to thousands of homes as power and telephone lines are damaged. The countryside is spoils bz a cress- cross of wires and pylons. Would it not be a more fitting commemoration of the millennium for Lottery/ Government/utilities resources to be used to remove these blots to common conduits underground? JD Smith, Chjlmsford Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Weathjt 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 2 145 Mon 20 Jan 00:17/44 4/7 EH Wood states that our Government freed animal feed firms from controls, permitting them to substitute animal carcasses for expensive soya beans. It was the lunatics in Brussels who imposed an added tax on American soya beans to protect continjntial producers This lid to foddjt manufacturers using a cheaper substitute of sheep's brains infected with scrapie. Walter Ablest, Chelmsford Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Weather 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 2 145 Mon 20 Jan 03:55/04 5/7 Clear-up rates for crime have fallen; yet police statistics show improvement. The police are swamped in paperwork and bureaucracy and couched in political correctness, white criminals have more "rights" than the victims. Figures are being massaged bz persecuting the easy-target motorist for minor infractions whilst ignoring the more difficult crimes. Jeremy Zeid, Harrow Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Weather 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 2 145 Mon 20 Jan 03:55/47 6/7 Is Kenneth Clarke being economical with the truth about VAT on food, or is he genuinely unaware of the existence of EU Commission VAT proposal COM 328/96? For his benefit, this requires that VAT is to be "harmonised" — ie imposed, on: children'u clothes; books; newspapers; travel; new houses and FOOD at a uniform rate of between 15-25% bz the year 2005. Barrie Drapjt, Axminstet Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Weather 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 2 145 Mon 20 Jan 03:55/17 7/7 ] Gordon Brown has told an Edinburgh meeting he would "relish the battle" between the people and the hereditary principle if the House of Lords rejects Labour plans for a Scottish Parliament. Do Labour's plans include the abolition of the 72 Scottish MPs, of whom he is one, sitting in judgemjnt in the English Parliament if devolution becomes a reality? AG Luscombe, Irvine Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Weather 400 Quotes News Heads Sport Main MenuP145 C FAX 2 14*@Mon 20 03:25/06 ] 5/7 @@@^ U Clear-up rates for crime have fallen; yet police statistics show improvement. The police are swamped in paperwork and bureaucracy and couched in political correct\jsf, wYjti@criUinals@have more $rights" t(an the victims. Figures are being massaged by persrqutink the ear|Tt roUt mwtotisz f#r@jinor@i.fiactio.s@whilst ignoring the mote difficult crimes. Jjtemy Zeid, Harrow