It's a fantasy world

He would have us cancel all aid to developing countries and the third world, where millions have died of starvation or have been murdered by war lords.

I would advise him to rise up from the money ocean of the stock exchange, where pin-striped sharks, and shoals of free market piranhas are still stripping the flesh from the bones of our once great industries.

Come on, Mr Makara, look at our overpaid free market politicians, whose hardest task of the day, is devising new ways of robbing the weakest within our society, the old, sick, disabled, the unemployed and the students.

Remember those evil days of slavery and imperialism, when the so-called good owner, fed, clothed and housed his slaves, so they could fulfil their daily tasks, and the bad slave owner brutalised those under his control.

Today employers can receive £70 per week for employing a young person. The employer doesn't have to pay a penny in wages, and the person employed receives unemployment pay plus £10. Under the previous Tory Government they cooked up schemes where young people had to work mainly in unskilled jobs, they would receive unemployment pay only and many of these young people were sacked after six months, and another batch brought in to replace them.

If that wasn't modern day slavery, I don't know what is.

If all aid were cancelled it would finish up in the pockets of the wealthy, who daily maintain and increase the power they have, as they monitor and control the vast octopus network of gambling exchanges from behind their five star steel and glass skyscrapers.

L Bradburn

Nevis Grove, Astley Bridge

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