Business is the goose that lays the golden eggs – all the good things that we enjoy. How sad that it is alternately treated as a cow to be milked, or reviled.

War years apart, I spent my working life in business. As brought up by my parents, grandparents and schools, I have always maintained the highest moral standards, and that has been my experience of all the business people with whom I have dealt.

There are black sheep any-where of course, and I certainly cannot speak for the gallimaufry of oligarchs and tin gods.

Wealth is services and goods made by exploiting and adding value to the free gifts of nature: vegetation, minerals etc. Wealth creation depends on organizing ability, imagination and productivity.

Area prosperity is likely to be tied to the number of high earners who can be attracted, and businesses with high capital investment.

Mayor Kate Wheller is absolutely right. Weymouth and Portland are endowed with prime capital equipment in their harbours.

Weymouth comes unstuck by having much of the prime property in municipal owner-ship. It wastes the potential of the backwater by lining it with government offices etc.

Prime land should go to the highest bidder, whether it be business or luxury housing. Developers have to sell their product, so of course it will be affordable. For cheap property build on cheaper land!

Weymouth’s roads need unblocking by completing the bypass from Chickerell to Ferry Bridge, not traffic gimmicks. Why take a car to Weymouth when you can take a plane to Timbuktu with less hassle?

R Bratt, Old Castle Road, Weymouth