WE are told that we will need more people working longer to solve the pensions crisis.

Yet in one year, 56,000 jobs were lost to India.

On a weekly basis, greedy companies are taking hundreds, if not thousands of jobs abroad.

I have just made my protest by changing from my house insurance company who are also taking thousands of jobs abroad.

We read of a deeply concerning rise in drinking and hooligans, David Blunketts' cure? Introduce 24-hour drinking licences.

And John Prescott's answer to the huge immigration problems? Enforce the building of more houses.

Blackouts looming

There are winter power blackouts looming, North Sea oil and gas will run out in the not-too-distant future, yet Minister Patricia Hewitt says it's far too early to act yet.

We are, however, building pipelines to import gas from Russia, and while we ignore the fate of our own nuclear power industry, we will buy nuclear-generated electricity from France.

BRIAN HUNT,

Worcester.