Labour must tax super-rich to reduce massive class gulf

Jul 21 2008 by Sarah Bull, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

WE HAVE been told repeatedly in recent years that we are all middle class nowadays. What nonsense!

If, as your leading article points out, workers from, school cooks to binmen and council housing staff to teaching assistants, many of them are paid little more than the minimum wage of £5.52 an hour are not working class, what are they?

We have had, no call for restraint to city financiers who this year have paid themselves bonuses of £13.8 billion, yet some of the poorest in the land are asked to make sacrifices which leave them poorer than before.

New Labour has constantly made excuses for not taxing the very rich, but unless something is done to reduce, visibly, the gross disparities between rich and poor, trade unionists will be forced to resort to the only weapon available to the working class seeking to secure a decent standard of living.

Philip Charlesworth

Waterloo

Soft laws support troublemakers

WE are told that the police have brought in a crack team to sort out all the yobs that are making trouble in Kirkheaton and Lepton.

But the big question is, how are they going to sort out all the mess when we have a Government that gives encouragement to all trouble makers?

The law says they have not to be named, they have not to be smacked, so it stands out a mile that they are taking advantage of our soft laws.

The police say they will sort out the yobs, I have to say that the police cannot do anything, not until our laws are changed. These trouble spots will continue and get worse until stricter punishment is dished out and that is with birch rods on their behinds. Also let’s see them named in our local paper.

H Barrowclough

Waterloo