Follow the Billy Butlin principle

WOULDN’T it be a good idea for George Osborne and the supermarket chiefs to visit Poundland to see how to manage the economy on the Billy Butlin principle of “It’s better to make a small profit on lots of goods than a large profit on a few”?

When prices are lowered, more people can buy, more products are needed to be produced, more jobs needed to produce them, more money made by more people so the tax revenues would go up and we may make some headway in getting down the country’s deficit.

Prefab solution

From: Dr Robert Heys, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge.

CONCERN has rightly been expressed in the Yorkshire Post recently regarding the proposed so-called “bedroom tax” on under-occupied housing accommodation, which means that the less well-off will inevitably be penalised.

Urgent action to address this situation is surely needed, and the building of “prefabs” which dealt with the housing shortage after the Second World War could, I suggest, be the answer. Such dwellings are still in use here in Calderdale. They are well cared for and attract new occupants whenever they fall vacant.

Making a point

From: Kenny Burden, Frances Street, Scunthorpe.

I DO have a question in respect of Max Nottingham’s professional print punishment routine (Yorkshire Post, March 26). Are we expected to believe that children under 10 will be making political wisecracks? Methinks Mr Nottingham was using his considerable imagination to make a point about parents and punishment.