SIR - Dear sirs, may I ask all Tories, candidates and voters a question as I am not sure if I have got it right.

The Tory “big society” means a fair society? Like we will give the richest one per cent a five per cent tax cut, averaging out at some £50,000, a year, a figure that most people would love to earn a year, never mind tax back.

Then allowing multi-national companies, those who fund the Tory party, to avoid tax altogether, then closing the Remploy factories and putting the disabled on the dole, freezing their benefits.

Cutting pensioners heating allowance from £400 to £300 and £250 to £200. Raising VAT to 20 per cent, then introducing the bedroom tax, zero-hour contracts.

Giving the nurses a reluctant one per cent pay rise, cutting defence so even NATO are concerned, building aircraft carriers with no planes to fly on them.

Cutting police numbers that even chief constables are giving out warnings, and record numbers of people using foodbanks, is this what is meant by the “big society”? If not I am sure there are enough Tories out there to put me right.

Mark Tate, Carrbottom Road, Greengates, Bradford