Austere legacy

The lasting legacy ten years on from the banking crash/ global financial crisis has left many still suffering the consequences.

But alas, it has not been the banks and financial institutions who have paid the heaviest price, it has been ordinary hard working families being hit by pay freezes and austerity cuts, which in turn plunged many of them into poverty and dependent on benefits.

How many bankers and financiers ended up on state benefits for survival?

The government of the day and since, went for the easy option and penalised the vulnerable and defenceless while bailing out the bankers – unforgivable, I would suggest.

Those actions and the actions of successive governments still speak louder than words today, especially to those who are still suffering the consequences. Going forward and to secure any kind of socially just society for all, lessons must be learned.

CATRIONA C CLARK Hawthorndrive, Banknock, Falkirk