How Government let banks steal £6,000 from each citizen

IF someone stole £6,000 from you, would you report this crime to the police? Sure you would. Yet when an economic policy does exactly the same, you do nothing because you don’t understand it.

The Bank of England has printed £350bn of our currency and has handed it over to the financial sector. This has kept shares and bonds overpriced and allowed bankers to award themselves another round of fat bonuses. Meanwhile, in the real world, everyone shivers in the age of austerity.

An independent body called Positive Money has worked out that the £350bn could have been used to put demand back into our economy. It could have provided work for the 2.5 million unemployed, at average salary for five years. This could have boosted growth by six per cent.

Instead, this money has gone to the financial sector, a crime so huge that the general public does not understand it. One day, the teachers, policemen, doctors, nurses, shop workers, indeed ordinary people everywhere, will wake up.

Your currency is being stolen. Your wealth is being sucked out of the country and you will be left a huge bill for even more. You are letting it happen, right now.

From: Shaun Fortes, Healey Drive, Ossett, West Yorkshire.

STARTING pay for police officers is to be cut by 20 to 25 per cent and the Minister for Education wants teachers to be on performance-related pay.

If this approach is to deliver better police officers and teachers would it not also work to give us better, more able politicians and Ministers? If the latter were to be introduced, I suspect that – on their current performance – many politicians would owe us, the people who pay their wages, money.

From: G Ellison, Hawthorne Avenue, Dronfield.

THE skivers want a huge pay rise as £65,000 per annum is not enough to live on, besides the expenses they receive, their second homes and other well paid jobs some of them have.

Of course, I am talking about our politicians. The majority of us wouldn’t pay them the minimum wage but this Government, same as the last one, think it is ample and that benefit claimants in this country lead “the life of Riley”.

From: Alan Carcas, Cornmill Lane, Liversedge.

THE voting down of the constituency boundary proposals by the Lib Dems is not just an attack on the Conservative Party, but it is a deliberate attack on the electorate because they dared to vote down the referendum on an alternative voting system.

The idea that the boundary proposals would give David Cameron more seats in the House of Commons is a red-herring, and based on previous voting patterns which have already changed, and will change further by May 2015.

Nick Clegg will now find out to his cost following this pathetic show of anti-democratic petulance towards a non-partisan statute that has stood the test of party political activity for some 50 years and more.

The electors are entitled to a democratic, free, fair, and properly balanced constituency voting system, but they don’t have it at the moment. It is overwhelmingly weighted in favour of Labour, and Clegg has condemned the voters to this unfair, undemocratic, unbalanced system for another two Parliaments at least.

Cameron should kick him out now. The post of Deputy Prime Minister has no defined role in Cabinet government, created, as it was, to appease John Prescott.

It should go, and Clegg with it.