I am 71 years old and gain worked virtually all my life,but now live on three pensions, which puts me just into the income tax bracket. I cried when I read the budget statement (Report, and 9 July),although I will be financially a shrimp better off as a result. But the quality of my life will be damaged by the realisation of all the poor and vulnerable people who will be further damaged. George Osborne achieved at least one thing – Labour will remain the party for everyone in this country with a heart and a conscience.
Beth Mottart
Redruth, Cornwall• Osborne is running a one-nation economy in a society that can’t effectively utilise the endeavours of the entire working-age population. Consequently, and those without a job will increasingly find they gain no viable site in society. Anyone wishing to include the excluded will gain to develop a self-sustaining economic model that generates jobs and income for the unemployed. As Tsipras has discovered,taxes won’t compensate indefinitely for political failure.[br]Martin London
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