Unnecessary and cruel

The cuts, putting millions on the poverty line, are unnecessary and cruel. The £6 billion could be raised far more quickly and fairly by asking bankers to return the £850 billion we gave them 18 months ago and which they still owe us.

The repayment could meet the £6 billion every year for the next 141 years. Think about this for a moment - 141 years where there need be no spending cuts.

Instead, the cuts will hit the poorest and most vulnerable hardest: pure Conservative ideology at work, nothing more.

Also, this government has recently written off £6 billion in tax cleverly evaded by a huge mobile phone company - another example of the rich gaining while the poor will foot a similar bill in the name of national debt.

And not forgetting the thousands who will be put on the dole by these spending cuts - decent people who will then be labelled scroungers by the gutter press.

Locally, our Conservative council seems to be echoing party lines with the farce that is now Devonshire Square. Once a public car park, this precious space in the town centre is now a concrete wasteland.

No longer 40 parking spaces for citizens, but parking for businesses working anywhere in the vicinity, one assumes. And space for two large skips used by said businesses, complete with metal fencing. No concern from Rother that this is no longer a car park. Can we all park there, I wonder? What a farce.

So what was once ours, the council concreted over to be used now only by private contractors and businesses. The needs of the rich few catered for over the needs of the poor many. Well done, Rother District Council. Oh, and guess who paid for the loss of their old car park - the citizens who lost it.

And the less said about the seafront, the better!

C SCOGGINS

Wickham Avenue

Bexhill-on-Sea