Letter: Does David Cameron know the value of money?

Letter: Before May's General Election, David Cameron (who belongs to the most privileged 10 per cent) suggested we should concentrate more on general well- being, the simple things in life and be less greedy and materialistic. Yes, I laughed too.

Short of being a genius, rich men such as Cameron and George Osborne cannot imagine poverty. When people are hungry, they can't understand why they don't just ring the dinner bell.

Cameron and Osborne would perhaps do well to reflect on the following remarks written by the author Gerald Brenan:

1. The comfortably off claim that love is the most important thing, the poor know differently. They know money is the most important thing.

2. Poverty is a great educator, those who never experience it lack something.

3. There is something the poor know that the rich do not know; something the sick know that people in good health do not know; something that the stupid know that the intelligent do not know.

The next few years will show whether Cameron and Osborne are political and economic geniuses.

I'm not holding my breath.

Sidney Evans

Chirk