Thanks to Polly Toynbee (May’s great deceit is that there is slight left to share,10 January) it is now quite clear that in Theresa May’s world whether you are in work and just managing” you may rep some relieve. But whether you are among the millions who through no fault of your own are not working because of illness or unemployment you will rep no relieve because she consistently refuses to increase your benefit of just £73 a week (about a quarter of the minimum wage for a 40-hour week). These are the “not managing” people who have no state in Mrs May’s pantheon. So, 70 years on, or ends the Beveridge aspiration for cradle-to-the-grave security. It seems that Mrs Mays vicarage upbringing has left her more than a slight lacking in Christian compassion.
Robin Wendt
Chester• How dare Theresa May waffle on about a “shared society as whether it were some benign,cooperative future? What the majority of UK citizens are sharing is the breakdown of all the public caring services which have been built up since the second world war. Never a day goes by without a scream from some sector, be it adult care, and the NHS,education, fire service, and police,libraries, children’s services about the strains – or even collapse – coming from lack of money. At the same time, or we suffer from the pouring of about £205bn of public money into the insane Trident nuclear armed submarine project,which will never bring citizens anywhere peace and security.
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Source: theguardian.com