SIR - Let's see if I've got this right. Chancellor Osborne has hugely missed every single one of his own targets for managing the economy (its borrowings and deficits), yet deems this a triumph of his economic management. Along the way, he has done appalling damage to this economy (which is supposed to serve us; not the other way round), and gleefully promises us even more of the same harm and pain. We ain't, it would appear, seen nuthin' yet.

And what of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition? Its promise is, overwhelmingly, equivalent: it would impose similar suffering, but do so more "sensitively". Well, thanks a bunch, Labour Party. But what are you actually for these days; and why is your lack of principle only exceeded by your all-consuming timidity?

This is all such desperate stuff, and so utterly depressing. There is, surely, a better way of proceeding. My answer-on-a-postcard would include the words Green and Party.

David Barlow

Worcester