Make Lords stump up

I HAVE an answer to Lord Willetts’ ‘generational dilemma’ (Mail).

Members of the Lords should instead of taking their over-generous £300 per day put it towards the £10,000 he recommends paying to young people.

I am in no doubt they can afford this payment more than most pensioners. this would also mean that, as many of them would be unlikely to attend, they would be stopped from voting against our elected politicians – and the general populace.

A. WILLIAMSON, Aberdeen.

WILL the punish the pensioners witch-hunt never end? the Resolution Foundation think tank has put forward the idea that pensioners should pay more tax and young people should get a £10,000 handout at the age of 25 (Mail).

Pensioners have paid tax and National Insurance all their working lives, with many working 50 years or more after leaving school at 14.

Stop attacking us and let us live our last few years in peace. No one gave us anything — we have had to work hard for what we’ve got.

I am all for giving deserving youngsters £10,000, such as those who are in work and attempting to save up for a house deposit.

Otherwise, have you any idea how much alcohol or drugs ten grand would buy? DAVE CROUCHER, Doncaster, S. Yorks.

HOW daft to give £10,000 to all 25year-olds with no strings attached.

Whatever happened to working and saving for what you want in life instead of expecting someone else’s thrift to pay for it? this proposal should be consigned to the bin.

JEFF DAVISON, Bishop’s Waltham, Hants.