SIR – Just who is running the country? Certainly not this Government, which is putting all its trust into a major French company, Atos Origin, and using its worldwide blueprints in managing the country.

Atos Origin is heavily involved in all major European and worldwide countries in running the health, welfare and leisure of the people.

The invalidity benefit reforms are a classic. The Government is paying this company £300 million to do all the new assessment reviews and using their own people to do them, then submitting the results to the department which will inform the claimant of the results, many of whom will lose the benefit, to claw back the £300 million.

It does not end there. Would you believe that this company is also being paid to run the Olympic Games IT system? It is also involved with the NHS and has had many failures with the scanning system it is using in our hospitals.

We are all in it together? What a laugh. Privatisation by the back door is the future, and it’s easy to see the Lib Dems are right in it up to their necks, enabling the Tory Government to get away with it.

It’s about time they stood up to their masters, and say enough is enough, or are they like their colour, yellow?

Malcolm Chapman, Westleigh, Bingley