Letter: Who will pay for all these vote bribes?
As politicians of all parties look to bribe us we should reflect someone has to pay, taxpayer or employer.
The range of goodies on offer is endless, the more given, the greater the demand, and the less some do for themselves, a syndrome of the universal benefit system, "I am entitled".
Since Brown, Balls, Cooper and Miliband raided private pension schemes of £5 billion per annum, the coalition ignored the chance to reinstate that, no party offers an incentive to save. Government and populace persist in escalating borrowing, this when inflation is nil, heaven help us when it returns.
The housing market is "god", it maintains employment, we need houses for immigrants, the indigenous population is not increasing, the immigrant minority is.
Free help with deposits, or buy at reduced prices, exempt property from inheritance tax, all fuel the house market and make the youngsters' dream more difficult to realise. Free child care, free school meals, minimum wages tax free irrelevant of how many hours worked, you note nothing for the retired.
If we were all in it together, in over 58 years of paying tax I have missed every gravy train, particularly the Eurostar to the EC, that today tells us renegotiation of terms will not be discussed before 2019!
It must be time to go, we are not wanted by Europe.
J Mayne
Bridgnorth
