Reader’s letter: Magnificent promises but little action

Statistics issued by the Trussell Trust stated that a record 9.3m people are facing hunger and hardship, while 6.3m adults and 3m children were living below the poverty line.

In addition, the Salvation Army and other similar charities talk of homelessness.

Yet despite all of these startling and disturbing statistics, plus the downturn in the number of births in this country, they do not seem to faze our political parties in any shape or form.

They clearly will apply in our district as well.

There is much rhetoric from the Prime Minister and government ministers on all sorts of areas but fail to take action on the many real needs of the citizens of this country, such as the rising cost of food and of our basic and essential utilities, water pollution, climate change and so on.

One Thomas Parker declared in the past that “magnificent promises are always to be suspected.”

The costs are affecting us all with regard to heating, cooking and lighting in this bleak winter. — A. M. WADDINGTON, Sutton-on-Trent.