Sir, - Aren't we the "clever clogs" to have saved ourselves £30 million by preventing social welfare recipients from having a lifestyle that is a little less unequal than the rest of us? What a pity we don't have the same political and practical will to eliminate abuses at the other end of the economic scale, e.g. the many institutions, builders, professional people and other "white collars" who regularly and legitimately suck us dry with the full backing of the State.
Imagine what an equitable society we could create if we gave total commitment to ensuring that each individual in the State earned only a fair salary/wage for work done. It is a shame that the very poorest and politically weakest are always the targets for our determined collective sense of outrage and fair play. - Yours, etc., Mary Ryan,
Chemin des Bonnements,
Putot-en-Auge,
France.