'Perhaps now we could talk of the biggest fall in the G10' - Your Letters: June 20

Perhaps now we could talk of the biggest fall in the G10.

We now know (because the Chancellor has told us) that quarterly information on GDP is "notoriously volatile" and that we should take no notice of a 0.3 per cent fall in GDP in the last quarter. She's probably right as the full impact of last Autumn's budget has not yet fully kicked in.

We are told that her aim is to "put more money in hardworking families pockets", this merely enhances my view that she may yet turn water into wine,

How stupid this woman is! In her 'hand out the sweeties' speech she was still quoting the First Quarter GDP increase. As I said at the time, this increase was skewed by reason of increased activity prior to the introduction of Trumpanomics and the Autumn budget cost increases hitting business and was never going to be repeated. How even more stupid to reiterate how great was the first quarter's improvement when she must have known at the same time the disaster of the second quarter.

If the latest fall is bad, we must await the even worse news as business absorbs the cost and holds back on investment awaiting the next hit in Autumn of this year. What she has done is to once more not understand the minds of businessmen and even that of her fellow Brits come to that.

Alan M Etheridge, West Midlands

CHURCH FLOWERS WERE WONDERFUL 

Please can I thank Shrewsbury Flower Club for its beautiful flower decoration of St Chads Church, Shrewsbury during the weekend of June 13. The flowers, windows, pillar and mezzanine decorations were amazing and showed so much attention to detail and weeks of hard work before hand and during the preparation. It was a real draw to our Civic church and no doubt drew people in who had not visited the church before. It was a huge success and so pretty.

Dr Sarah Thomson, Shrewsbury

QUESTION ON USE OF OUR OFFICERS

'Thin blue line at breaking point' screams the headline in the Shropshire Star and no wonder with the cuts in funding in real terms. You can't help wondering though when several police are assigned to arrest a single elderly person who has posted something on social media that the Government consider a crime, whether that is an effective use of resources.

W I Huxley, Shrewsbury

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