Dear Editor
The Tory/Lib government slogans of a ‘big society’ and ‘we are all in this together’ are shown as a complete sham by their actions against the many.
They are also past masters at diverting attention from the effects of their actions, for example:
• People on work versus the unemployed on benefit
• People on housing benefit labelled as scroungers and layabouts, ignoring the fact that the landlord receives the benefit!
• People on disability benefit made to undergo a further ‘fit for work’ test, run by a private company.
Creating scapegoats is deliberate policy; they fear a people united against their policies of destroying universal benefits and replacing them with means-tested benefits based on the lowest possible level.
A. Delahoy, Silverknowes Gardens
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Absolutely agree – and if Labour had remained in power things would have been exactly the same. It was very honest of Alistair Darling to say that labours cuts would have been just as deep as the Tory/Lib Dems. Inequality in the UK is now the 4th highest in the developed world… whilst fraud is being committed in London, we’re going to spend £100 billion on nuclear weapons which America will own, we are going to contribute billions to High Speed Rail which we will see no benefit from, we will be subsidising London transport, we’ll still be in the front line of foreign wars pretending we are still a world super power.
If only our parliament could have taken some of that power away from Westminster. It probably would have been a good thing for the whole UK. The Scottish Parliament has demonstrated it has been good for the people living in Scotland. But the option for meaningful powers has been taken off the table for this referendum and I don’t trust Westminster if we say ‘No’ to allow our parliament to have the power it needs to protect us from Westminster politics. I have been pushed quite definitely into the Yes camp for 2014.