Will prison apply to those who stole ASW pensions?

Thatcher’s and Brown’s governments robbed the ASW workers of their pensions Kevin J Wilkinson, Rumney, Cardiff

IT WAS with great interest that I read an item in the “5 minute briefing” (Echo, February 11) stating that Pensions Minister Amber Rudd has threatened company bosses who have been reckless with employee pensions with up to seven years in jail.

I would like to know if a retrograde seven-year sentence would apply to surviving ministers from Margaret Thatcher’s and Gordon Brown’s goverments who blatantly robbed the ASW workers of the pensions they saved for all their working lives. Perhaps Theresa May’s government would be sweating for what they did with the coalminers’ pensions.

As working-class people we expect nothing off Tory governments as they look after their own, the “better-off”. As a lifelong Labour voter, as was my father and his father before him, I expected better. My late wife Jean was an excellent socialist City and County of Cardiff councillor. Sadly, even Labour MPs, AMs or whatever have done nothing to bring justice for the steelworkers.

It was with dismay that I read in your letters page that my old mate Colin Stamp, who along with relentless campaigners John Benson and Phil Jones, has suffered illhealth due to this daylight robbery. Please do the right thing, Mrs May, and give us what is rightfully ours.

Get well Stampie and, once again, thanks to you, John Benson, Phil Jones, Peter Jackson, Larry Dacey and everyone who has campaigned tirelessly to bring justice for the steelworkers.

Kevin J Wilkinson Rumney, Cardiff

Wrong decisions – but in safe jobs

THE Echo article “Taxpayers spend more to get fewer services” (February 7) is a true statement of how inefficiently the Welsh Government and local authorities are running Wales.

Road repairs in Cardiff are not done by Cardiff council but by contractors, so why not put other services out to contractors – for example traffic wardens, who seem to walk around in pairs?

Many main roads are clogged up with cars parked partly on the pavements, on double yellow lines or in loading bays.

Politicians and public servants have been making wrong decisions for years but are in safe jobs – if they worked for major British companies they would have been dismissed years ago!

M Strutt

Heath, Cardiff

FInding a home is only the beginning

ONCE someone who has been homeless eventually is allotted a home to rent, the story does not end there.

To enable them to move in, a considerable amount of items are needed at affordable prices and anyone setting up home for the first