ONCE again we are facing a General Election, and the three main parties are jockeying for position and giving us the standard spiel that we hear every time.
Why are the candidates not addressing the real concerns that people are worried about?
Why are our petrol prices so high, so that some cannot afford it?
Why are we giving handouts to other countries when we are in so much debt that new tax rises may have to be imposed just to pay them off?
Why are we not allowed a referendum on Europe, which, as far as I can see, is only an old boys club for retired MPs like Neil Kinnock and his wife.
Why did we really go to war in Iraq?
Why are we still accepting immigrants when we have the worst unemployment for decades?
Why are more MPs not being taken to task for abusing their expenses?
Why aren’t the expenses of members of the House of Lords expenses being exposed?
What about health care – and standards of living?
Why are we allowing the banks to give big bonuses after being bailed out?
I don’t care who wins a televised debate; that means nothing to me or the rest of the public.
Promises should not be broken, and, if they are, the government concerned should be removed from office for doing so.
It is time politicians realised that they serve us the people – and stop looking down on us.
JOHN J MONAGHAN, Cotman Close, Abingdon
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