SIR – Harriett Baldwin’s column ‘We’re giving you peace of mind’ (Worcester News, February 21) is the most astonishing piece of twaddle I’ve read recently.

She wrote “...and England’s fairest countryside” but failed to complete the sentence with the words... which we are concreting over to keep the city of London happy.

What planet does this MP live on?

She writes about giving pensioners “peace of mind”

when her government is planning, in conjunction with its Liberal cronies, the wholesale robbing of Middle England.

‘Stealing’ pensioners’ savings and their homes to pay for care is disgraceful.

Scotland doesn’t ‘rob’ its pensioners to pay Scottish care bills. Why then should an English government be permitted to ‘rob’ English pensioners, very probably with the support of Scottish MPs?

Why should people who have worked all their lives and paid taxes all their lives pay for exactly the same care those without homes or savings get free of charge, and which Scots also get for free?

Leave our homes and our savings alone. They are not yours. They are ours – from a lifetime of graft.

I’m sick of seeing provision for us old being slashed.

Providing care home services for us old, free of all charges, would cost our despicable coalition government, and Labour opposition, just £3 billion annually, according to media figures.

That’s small change in government spending. And it can be easily found.Indeed, successive governments have wasted decades of free care for our old on Ministry of Defence cost overruns and on useless NHS computer systems.

Get rid of our unusable nuclear deterrent, scrap our useless new aircraft carriers, which we can’t afford to equip with planes and save £85 billion a year on unemployment benefits by employing our own before foreigners, tell Europe to get lost and save £35 billion a year, spend the £9 billion foreign aid budget on our own; limit top public sector salaries to what the Prime Minister gets paid, and pay the tens of thousands of quangocrats half that.

N TAYLOR

Worcester