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Your support makes all the difference.I so enjoyed reading John Rentoul’s tongue-in-cheek analysis of this populist Budget from our box-ticking chancellor, who knows that a liberal spoonful of sugar will help the public health crisis go down, if not out of our stricken and sick world.
I suspect Theresa May was not too happy about this crowd-pleasing effort, but what did she expect? The money trees are flourishing because Team Boris has watered and cosseted them to their full flowering munificence.
The liberal Tory is the new kid on the block and Labour must now play catch-up and identify the omissions and discrepancies in this Budget.
Judith A Daniels
Great Yarmouth
Austerity isn’t over yet
Haven’t I heard this somewhere before? “Budget 2020 brings end to austerity policies with borrowing-fuelled spending”.
Theresa May announced at the Tory conference in 2018 that “austerity” was over, without evidence, only grabbing the headlines. Austerity proved to be more resilient.
It won’t be over until we witness the money promises made good and the fat lady has finished singing.
Eddie Dougall
Bury St Edmunds
What’s wrong with new roads?
Why the criticism of the road-building plans as announced in the Budget? Will electric cars not require decent roads on which to travel?
Michael Pate
Preston
Trump’s coronavirus measures
The only foreign policy principle which Donald Trump recognises is tit for tat. To protect ourselves from increased risk of coronavirus spread, we should now ban all flights between the UK and the US.
Ian Hurdley
Ferndown
Accepting death as part of life
Yesterday’s edition saw an excellent selection of letters.
I concur with Susan Alexander in relation to our societal attitude towards death. If we could (as a culture) come to accept that death is a perfectly normal resultant of life itself, then the suffering inextricably linked to life and being might well become much more tolerable for us all.
Peter Dilworth
Anglesey
We need hands-free taps
With all the emphasis on hand washing these days, I’m wondering what, if any, consideration is being given to the relative merits of hands-free faucets versus manual faucets in the prevention of the spread of coronavirus.
Thomas Sullivan
Massachusetts
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