Callous disregard for home-owners

ED Milliband’s (Red Ed’s) courageous plan to freeze energy prices was met with scorn by the Tories as a Communist plot and By George Osborne as ‘straight from Das Kapital’. How interesting it is that Osborne returned from China victorious with a plan that

Here they have shown callous disregard for poor people who cannot afford to heat their homes. They just don’t get it! Any old person will tell you that even wearing three pullovers will not stop your legs, feet, ears and nose from freezing.

The intervention of Alex Salmond on this topic can have enormous consequences for all of us. On independence he promised re-nationalisation of the Royal Mail, scrapping of the bedroom tax, ensuring that the minimum wage keeps pace with inflation and the cost of living and transferring green taxes on fuel from the consumer to the treasury. Oh! that such sweet words would pour forth from the mouth of the Labour leader!

The stark fact is that in an independent Scotland the poor and those on the minimum wage will be far better off than their English counterparts. Our government’s intransigence on energy prices has probably ensured that Alex Salmond is home and dry. The terrible irony of this is that Salmond will in turn have handed Cameron, his greatest adversary, a victory in the next Un-United Kingdom election by robbing Labour of a critical number of Scottish Labour MPs.

The prospect of we in the North of England rotting under successive South-East orientated Tory Governments is a very depressing one.

If only we could get our independence and be free to join up with Scotland!

D Brennan, address supplied