Blame the short-sighted elite for current economic woes

From: Dr Glyn Powell, Bakersfield Drive, Kellington.

THE Tory myth perpetrated by Thatcher in the 1980s was that our economic failings were the fault of trade unions.

With the nation’s economy in catastrophic meltdown, resulting in looming abject poverty for many, it is not surprising that leading Tory MPs now blame Britain’s “idle workers” for our ills.

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As a former shift manager at a major chemical works, I can categorically say that Britain’s ills were and are not the fault of trade unions or idle workers, but due to shortsighted capitalist owners/shareholders and public school educated managers who did 
not know the difference between an atom and a molecule but were in post because of either who they knew or as a result of the nation’s rotten class system.

These managers rushed to close plants when products made losses, while the “patriotic” owners moved production to India or China where these products make huge profits 
today.

Your readers shouldn’t be surprised as short-termism is a trait of Britain’s so-called elite.

Contrary to malevolent Tory thinking, Britain’s economic ills are entirely due to incompetent management and the greed of capitalist owners who will move production anywhere for more profit.

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Have these ignorant Tories forgotten that it was privately-owned, free-enterprise banks and their corrupt dealings that precipitated the current debt and economic depression in 2008?

From: Robert Craig, Priory Road, Weston-super-Mare.

I UNDERSTAND the views of those who think that he is a mouse, but they are wrong about David Cameron. The Prime Minister is no mouse.

He has stuck doggedly to his pro-EU guns and to his Lib Dem colleagues, facing down the vociferous but gutless “Eurosceptic” Tory back benchers. Cameron is not stupid, what ever else he might be.

He knows what happens to Tory Prime Ministers who deviate from the EU orthodoxy.

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Once Margaret Thatcher had expressed doubts about the European project, she was replaced by the Euro-fanatic 
John Major.

If anyone is looking for mice, they are to be found among the ranks of Cameron’s backbenchers, who do not 
have the courage of their convictions.

If they had, they would have long since defected to parties which share their opinions about the EU – like Ukip.

From: Neil Craig, Woodlands Road, Glasgow.

I SEE the Bank of England is admitting that there will be 
no growth this year and is cutting its forecasts of minimal growth for future years.

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Perhaps now the British people should be allowed to know the truth.

Throughout the alleged 
“world recession”, the non-EU part of the world has been growing at an average of six per cent.

Every serious politician 
knows how to end recession – 
but only Ukip actually supports such economic liberal 
policies.