Letter: You have to feel sorry for shareholders...

Letter: This year we elected, by default, a Government of silver-spoon-fed tyrants who pretended to have "social conscience".

How many of us actually want the poorer element of society to be blamed for all the ills of society? Has anyone in this coalition worked for a living? A national Government seeks to ask, nay, tells us how to run our lives and yet has little knowledge (or care) of reality.

Local governments talk of outsourcing some or all of the services they provide. Surely, by inference this is putting front line services that were being performed by a non-profit making organisation into profit making ones. Does this mean that councils are inept at running things?

Nationalised industries were privatised and the profits they make go into shareholders pockets. Poor old British Gas is going to pass on an increase to you and me. They didn't see fit to lower the prices when wholesale prices fell, the poor shareholders may have had a reduced "divvie".

The only things that private enterprise should operate are those that are not intrinsic to our health, that way market-forces will dictate winners and losers.

If Oxfam can provide drinking water so cheaply why can't Severn Trent?

Andy Chetwood

Little Dawley