How are politicians spending?

Why is it that the working class of our country is always penalised? The rich and big business have their money in off-shore tax havens whilst we have PAYE.

The banks take us to the cleaners every day because our salaries/pay automatically go into accounts which they charge us for using.

They have taken our NHS payments off us since 1947. Road tax is ever on the increase and so is council tax. Government has had billions from north sea oil. We have paid through the nose for our pension which now does not exist.

VAT is on everything we buy. They have sold our water, gas and electricity without asking us first.

Few of us can afford to travel by train and local bus fares, taxis and car parking are a rip-off.

Now they look around to see how else they can rob our pocket with the help of their very good friend "Red Ken", who has worked out they can get some more out of us if they slap a surcharge on us for congregating too much in certain areas.

They have not abandoned the idea of taxing us for parking at work and at the moment are arguing about how much extra to charge us per mile for using the car.

Our infrastructure is crumbling. Hospitals are closing, our services cut or reduced.

Manufacturing in our country is being moved to other countries for economic reasons; what jobs are left are being taken up by economic migrants.

They tell us we are a country of services. So we throw out common sense, bring out the plastic to buy the necessities and plunge ourselves into debt, the highest ever record. What a legacy.

The big question is: where has the money gone?

Cllr Frank Leeming, Derby