Braintree MP James Cleverly’s solution to the ram raider in Halstead last week is to close all ATMs.

Where do they find these people?

Here is a solution Mr Cleverly - how about having police stations with officers manning them?

Since police stations in this part of Essex have closed there have been numerous ram raids on ATMs. Do you think there might be a connection?

Braintree police station now covers all crime up to the Cambridgeshire and Suffolk borders.

All the town and village police stations in between have been closed and their sites sold for residential development.

If people didn’t realise it before, law abiding citizens are on their own.

What will Mr Cleverly’s solution be when acid attacks and moped attacks spread from London? Ban battery acid and mopeds?

Mr Cleverly, as deputy chairman of Conservative Party, is touring the country trying to sell Theresa May’s Chequers plan which would turn the UK into a vassal state.

His response to critics is we can renegotiate the Withdrawal Treaty once we have left the EU.

Here is a novel solution James, why not negotiate the treaty properly before we leave the EU, then we won’t have to do any renegotiating.

Incidentally, Switzerland has been trying to renegotiate a treaty with the EEC/EU since 1972. They are still at it.

Arnold Slater

Morris Green, Sible Hedingham