WELL said C J Portal, it’s about time the gravy train for MP’s and Lord’s was massively curtailed. However, I would go further and say the management (if that’s what you can call it), of the public sector is completely out of control. The financial mis-management of this sector is wasting ten times more than any overspend on the benefit system. No matter which area you look at, there are financial obscenities by those at the top. Take the BBC, six figure pay offs, way in excess of what they should have been paid, and on grossly over-the-top salaries to start with. All out of our public purse, for which absolutely nobody seems to be accountable.

The list of wasting public money by the bosses in the public sector is endless, the FSA, Social Services, Health Trusts, and nearer home the CEO of one of our Local Authorities. They are all still getting away with it, and if the heat starts to rise, they get six figure pay offs for failing. Quite frankly the general public are completely sick and tired of these financial obscenities and MP’s are failing totally to stop them, as they are also on the massive gravy train.

D.J. Pritchard Rowan Way Newport