SIR – Godfrey Bloom (Letters, May 14) asks of the Archbishop of Canterbury ‘Where do they find ’em’? The answer is in the same drawer marked ‘Compassion’ as several of the contributors to your letters page and about half of the adult population of this country.
They are mainly from ‘hard-working families who do the right thing’. Unlike David Cameron, George Osborne, Iain Duncan Smith and probably Mr Bloom, however, they do not see themselves as somehow different from those who for no fault of their own are forced to join the ranks of the unemployed and thereby change in an instant from decent citizens to ‘benefit scroungers’.
Cameron and the others have not and never will know what it is like to lose their job and be forced to turn to the state for help.
Only this week, for example, 16,000 middle managers from Barclays Bank and another 2,500 from Asda have been told their services are no longer required.
That is why welfare, which Mr Bloom so scornfully dismisses, is a priority for those who like the Archbishop care and not something to be denigrated as shameful.
Brian Holmans, Langley Road, Bingley
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