SIR – Re: ‘Financial Facts’, Alan Holdsworth’s letter (T&A, February 10). I do wish he would pay attention! I admitted to an oversight in relation to inflation in an earlier letter, not to not understanding.

I do agree with Mr Holdsworth about Thatcher neutering workers’ negotiating bodies – and about time, too! Unions held the rest of the population to ransom on a number of occasions, disrupting lives and work.

I’m much more concerned about non-unionised workers and the truly poor and needy.

It’s a pity that Labour did not agree with Mr Holdsworth and restore the unions’ moderating influence. Another reason to blame them for the “economic and financial chaos” of today!

John Hall, Pennithorne Avenue, Baildon