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Get in real world and stop the spin


SIR – I read with astonishment John Shearon’s claim that Mr Brown had made a profit out of his sale of 395 tonnes of our gold reserves (more than half). This is totally untrue.

By mentioning the proposed sale he depressed the price of gold to a 20-year low and lost billions of pounds to this country. Where is the gold or the money now, John, from this faulty sale? Squandered, of course. Replaced by debt.

His next dreadfull action was raiding pension funds. Thousands have lost their pensions or had them reduced.

Who then does this Labour government attack? The 10 per cent tax band. What easy targets, John, the OAPs and low paid. John, please get into the real world and stop your spin.

Malcolm Doyle,
Ockeridge.

Comments(2)

BarryB says...
3:15pm Fri 10 Jul 09

This man cannot take even your bald comments in Malcolm. Irrespective what the Labourites do and the sale of our gold reserves is a classic, he is the type that Labour rely on to keep them in power. The intelligent ones left Labour years ago. Now, the dwindling band are mainly the John Shearon's of this world who don't wish to know or can't understand what Brown did for our wonderful pensions schemes. Final salary pension schemes are disappearing by the day and we have Clown to thank for it with his £5 Billion annual tax on pension investment interest. At a stroke he devastated the whole pension regime in this country. John Shearon possibly gets his state pension and the additional benefits to top it up which puts him in a better position than means tested pensioners who get nothing other than the basic pension. In his situation, why should he bother or have a conscience over the ones that Labour have let down. As for the 10p tax rate, he doesn't pay tax and he is not one of the poor who have mainly been affected by it. He is sitting pretty, a typical Labour voter. What a topsy turvey world Clown has brought about.

jabbadad says...
12:20am Sat 11 Jul 09

I agree totally BarryB, Worcester. The only defense for Shearon is that he is related to Gordon, or perhaps health wise to George. He is so ill informed that he is related to Gordon or that the local NEW Labourites/ FOSTER? are writing his letters under a pen name.


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