SIR – I am prompted to ask whether the Government has been studying The Scriptures.

Why would I ask this? I refer to the Gospel according to Matthew and refer to Chapter 25, Verse 29, which reads: “For to every person who has something even more will be given and he will have more than enough; but the person who has nothing even the little he has will be taken away from him”.

Sound familiar? There will by many people who might think this passage very much sounds like the basis for Government policy.

Maybe so, maybe not, but when all is said and done it does have a familiar ring to it.

Dennis Delaney, The Avenue, Clayton