Sir – Government borrowing hit the highest level ever recorded in April and we have also seen four consecutive announcements of downgrading of growth by the Bank of England.
These are the facts of the Conservative-led coalition’s phoney war on debt.
The Exchequer is suffering from low tax intake because of a strangled economic policy.
How can any plan be viewed with any seriousness when it has as one of its parameters “hope” that the private sector will create jobs and growth.
Right-wing Conservatives are suggesting a need for deeper cuts to balance our lack of growth but, surely, rather than pursue their ideological dismantling of our welfare state they should be looking to create growth stimulus?
The Labour party had done just that before leaving office and growth was far healthier and debt reduction was far quicker.
I have a question for growth deniers in the unlikely event of Mr [George] Osborne’s original projections being correct and that there will be a surplus in government funds.
If these cuts are not ideologically based, would the Conservative-led coalition reinstate lost public services along with employment programmes to deal with the national disgrace that is 20 per cent youth unemployment?
Richard Boorn
Worcester
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