IT was great to see not only protesters but members of the public heckling Tory minister Iain Duncan Smith on his “secret” visit to Bolton recently.

Had Mr Duncan Smith planned and announced his visit through the wider media, no doubt he would have been met by fierce opposition by people opposed to his disgusting and inhuman policies.

Mr Duncan Smith was clearly nervous at his being heckled by Boltonians, and so he should be as his party and his policies are wrecking this northern town along with other towns, and what’s worse is that the cuts to social provision being made by the government are not making the deficit any smaller.

The government is still borrowing whilst the deficit continues to grow which, of course, explains what many have been saying all along that these cuts are nothing to do with dealing with deficits.

They are propping up a corrupt and rotten-to-the- core banking sector. These cuts are ideological, and are about breaking up services and selling them at knockdown prices to their friends and colleagues.

Steve Jones Morris Green