MONEY IS AVAILABLE

Isn’t it amazing how there is no money to pay public sector staff more, but billions of pounds can be found to keep the Tories in power and to fund the HS2 rail plan that most people will never use?

I am surprised there hasn’t been a walkout by public sector workers as their patience has been tested to the limit.

Are we prepared to stand by and see the end of the NHS, schools closed due to lack of teachers and the erosion of social services? Vince McAllister Ely, Cambs

In addition to control measures “to create a smoke-free generation” (Mirror, July 19), tobacco firms should be forced to face the consequences of their actions by being made to fund hospitals and hospices to exclusively care for the sick and dying victims of diseases caused by smoking. Geoff Naylor Winchester, Hants