SIR - Cost of living crisis? What cost of living crisis?

The problem with working people in the UK is that they had it too easy in life for far too long! They are merely overpaid, over educated ingrates, incapable of running a household budget adapted to current financial circumstances.

This is what happens when we provide free education and in-work benefits to a population who fritter away their vast unearned incomes on flat screen TVs, take-away food, alcohol and smartphones.

It’s high time these people learned to live far more frugally in order to retain the status quo in this country! Failing that, they should strive to work harder to get on in life.

I must point out that the above is not my opinion of society but is the narrative a Tory government is trying to impress on the more gullible among us. Sadly, to some extent, succeeding!

Colin Durkin, Moffat Close, Bradford