As social welfare is based on the lowest amount one can be expected to survive on, how can it then be reduced, and all the talk of the cost of living having dramatically dropped along with rents seems to be just that – talk.
The threat of further cuts to pensions and welfare should not even be tolerated, especially after the Scrooge-like abolishment of the Christmas bonus payment which many, particularly pensioners, depended on not for frivolities but just to help manage the winter bills.
At this rate we will soon be returning to the days when, having worked their entire lives to build this society, they are advised by the caring Government to spend their days trussed up in multiple layers of clothes and of course to wear a hat indoors or risk dying of hyperthermia because they can't afford the basic commodity of heat.
Let's be glad there's no such worries for our friendly bankers, who instead of being humbled by the fact that they have abruptly destroyed our booming economy through their greed and deceit and that each and every one of us now has to pick up their tab to bail them out from their catastrophic mistakes, continue with the same unabashed arrogance and couldn't care less attitude as before.
It's time that we all said that enough is enough and instead of begrudgingly continuing to pay off their debts, stop all the pointless talking and take action that will make those in power actually start to listen.

Yours,
J. Knox,
Upper Main Street,
Donegal Town.