Public being lied to

Published on 28th February 2008 in Letters

Sir - How much longer is this government going to lie to us about the rate of inflation?

What on earth are their figures based on? Obviously fuel, food, council tax, public transport, house prices, rent costs, and utility bills are not used to calculate the inflation rate. What is most annoying is that they seriously think the public are taken in by their lies.

It matters not to MPs and their cronies who have boarded the gravy train as they do not pay for many things that the rest of us have to, like transport costs, housing, etc., as they fiddle the expenses - as we read in the press recently - even though they are in a much better position to pay than most.

There are five million inactive adults in Britain, yet the unemployment figures say there are about one million unemployed. Does that mean four million are unemployable - or could this be another lie? This bunch of self-interested people who infest politics today will never do anything to alter this situation as the British public are far too law-abiding to make a fuss about being lied to on this industrial scale.

We will just carry on paying for the five million unemployed and the ten per cent inflation rate from our two per cent pay rises if we are lucky. Thanks for nothing!

Kev Chessman

Goole