Letter: Simple solution to a complex problem
This country is becoming very difficult for any government to govern because of the different costs of living in different areas.
For example, compare Telford and London. Ideally, if a minimum wage of £7.50 was introduced gradually over a period of years and tax credits reduced, then the big businesses would end up reducing their profits and the Government would stop having to subsidise big businesses. As it stands, big businesses have the Government over a barrel.
Take a factory worker in Telford earning £6.19 and hour, this is not enough to live on so the Government has to pay a tax credit, child credit, housing credit, housing benefit, the list goes on. This is a complex problem which I feel will be improved by decreasing the differential between regional areas costs of living.
I am lucky enough not to be disabled or sick, but was stunned to hear that 75 per-cent of people a week are dying within weeks of being sent back to work, after being classed as okay to work, when previously being disabled or sick.
Also people are terminally ill with cancer and sent to training for the unemployed. I feel we are going backwards as a society.
M Anderson
Leegomery
