GEORGE OSBORNE has given the Conservative party conference a glimpse into future economic policy. I see a reflection of Winston Churchill: “Never in the field of human finance is so much owned by so few.
“All your hearts go out to the city financiers, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day by day, but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our corporate squadrons travel far into tax havens, find their targets by the highest evasive skill, stow their gains, often under the heaviest fire, with no serious loss, with deliberate, careful manipulation, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the national coffers and welfare state...”
It looks as if the poor are to suffer another blitz, while those who could afford to help are given a hand to ensure their next generation fulfil the adage “money goes to money”.
The comedy of it all is that the policies have been devised by the same Civil Service that produced the so-called bad policies of the previous government.
Will society destruct before it realises fairness is the glue that keeps us together?
B Jackson, Sacriston.

GEORGE OSBORNE may just have signed the death knell on the Tories’ chances of getting back into power.
More cuts to hit the poor is not a vote winner.
I know the majority of people would like to get into work – but where are the jobs?
Perhaps the Government could stop wasting money on dropping bombs.
Defence Minister Michael Fallon predicted that the war in Iraq may go on for years. Can we afford it ? I don’t know.
JM Gowland, Heighington.