From Barry Runacres.
I READ with great regret the list of proposed cuts aimed at the most vulnerable in the Island. I imagine that when the Treasury Minister had to decide who should suffer he was at first perplexed, then he had a brainwave.

He took out from his cupboard a Monopoly board. Firstly he rolled dice. The number revealed required him to drop on Park Lane. He was shocked. He just could not do it because this was the area of the rich.

So shielding his eyes he rolled again and with great joy he landed on Old Kent Road. ‘Wow, I am saved because these defenceless people have nothing to fight back with. I can hammer them into the ground but if I go against the rich the resistance would be so great that I would have to dig a big hole and bury myself.’

These vulnerable people on benefits and income support have no one to defend them so they must be left to scratch for whatever they can find. The pensioners, who have served the Island well – I mean those who have been in the Island for decades, not those Brits who have come in the last twenty years in order to profit from the system.

Now in this time of crisis let us turn the spotlight on the rich who pay nearly no taxes – what do they intend to do to help? The answer is nothing because they are too selfish.

They moved to the island in great numbers but have made no effort to integrate but only wish to live in their big houses away from public gaze. It’s a bit like South Africa.

Finally, as I have suggested before, all politicians and civil servants should take a pay cut, as a gesture, of ten per cent and the top civil servant 15 per cent.

I challenge these people to make a subscription towards those who cannot defend themselves. After all, these politicians are people who are well-off and would not miss what to them are paltry amounts.