Letter: Shropshire Star

County sports stars get raw deal

Sport England, the national sports funding body for England, is to be disbanded.

Sport England is the Government organisation that sponsored the Tour of Britain cycle race that didn't have an English team and which said that it wouldn't want to sponsor an English cycling team even if there was one.

I would be quite happy for Sport England to be disbanded and replaced with another organisation that actually wants to represent England.

However, the Government intends to replace Sport England with UK Sport whilst leaving the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish national sports bodies in place.

This means that they will be replacing yet another English organisation with a British one that still only deals with England - nothing more than a boardroom shuffle and a new name.

This is quite simply the latest in a long line of propaganda exercises to try and confuse England with Britain in the hope that we won't pay too much attention to the £15 billion of English taxes flowing out of our country to the devolved governments in Scotland and Wales.

Stuart Parr,
Telford