MANY people’s pensions and savings are now worthless. More than two million people are unemployed, and who knows how many face bankruptcy and homelessness?

Increasing food costs and utility prices has now caused the charity Save the Children to start operating within this country to help British children.

Does the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, still believe that the priority must be to help the countries of Eastern Europe and South America before help is given to the British public?

Unless the Government changes its attitude, and starts addressing the public’s real problems, the underlying pressure and problems in our society will only build until it finally explodes. I, like so many others, am old enough to remember the riots during the Seventies and Eighties.

CT Riley, Spennymoor, Co Durham.