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It’s savers and pensioners who pick up the bill
• MP Glenda Jackson does not know that, unlike her, people have no money to spend but are paying higher indirect taxes including increases in the council house rents, council tax, fares in the public transport etc (Glenda’s ‘proud to be in the tax-and-spend party’, April 2).
She has only to go to a supermarket to see how senior citizens and younger people without jobs are suffering.
Ms Jackson and the Labour Party are out of touch with the common people.
The common people rejected the Camden Labour Party and it is now the turn for Ms Jackson.
What she has exposed is that she does not know that many countries and companies have survived the “global implosion” by “investing in different ways”.
For example, banks like HSBC and Chartered Bank have not gone to the government with a begging cap but Royal Bank of Scotland, Northern Rock, Bradford and Bingley have cost many people dearly owing to lack of proper monitoring by the government agency.
Labour’s economic policy put a great burden on savers and pensioners.
There are “different ways” which only the politicians with tunnel vision cannot see.
The next election will show that to Ms Jackson and many others.
SUNIL KUMAR PAL
Abbey Road, NW8
Key seat for the future
• HAVING attended the debate between the parliamentary candidates for the Hampstead and Kilburn seat, voters will have an important decision: who should represent them in Parliament and in government?
Hampstead and Kilburn, and Britain as a whole, will decide if we will let Gordon Brown cling on to power or if we want a fresh start with David Cameron’s agenda of change.
Between 1970 and 2009, first Hampstead and Highgate, and now Hampstead and Kilburn, have been represented by two MPs, Geoffrey Finsberg for the Conservatives until 1992 and Glenda Jackson for Labour since.
For 30 out of the past 40 years therefore, Hampstead MPs have been part of the government’s parliamentary majority, and in the case of Finsberg, an important government minister.
Conservative candidate Councillor Chris Philp, if elected, will very likely be part of Cameron’s government, something Glenda will never be in Brown’s.
Hampstead and Kilburn will therefore have an important say in Britain’s future. As the recent Observer poll has shown, a growing majority of voters are backing the Conservatives.
As for the Liberal Democrat candidate, his claim that he would be a strong constituency MP raises the question: if he is so vested in the local area why has he not stood for council unlike Cllr Philp?
Actually we know the answer. When a Liberal Democrat did stand in 2006 he was roundly rejected in the polls.
But between one snipe and another at Cllr Philp – revealing who the Lib Dems are really scared of – their candidate failed to provide a satisfactory answer to why should we vote Lib Dem? A Lib-Dem MP will be in opposition regardless of who wins between Cameron and Brown and will therefore be an anonymous back-bench MP, whose vote will be irrelevant when the next government is called to make important decisions on the economy, our schools, our hospitals and our post offices.
Voting Lib Dem gets Ed Fordham a nice £60K plus expenses job but will deprive Hampstead and Kilburn’s constituents of a say in our nation’s government.
With the important challenges Britain faces, we can’t waste out time, and our vote, by giving it to the Lib Dem candidate.
GIOVANNI SPINELLA
West End Lane, NW6
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