Generation that pensioners have perks?

of Lords would create the extra money needed for pensioner benefits.

M. KENNEDY, address supplied.

NO MATTER how many benefits are taken away from the aged, not one young person will be better off. The money will disappear into the black hole of the Exchequer. In the same way, cutting the salaries of the board of the BBC will not boost the cleaners’ wages.

PHILIP MENZIES, Hornchurch, essex.

TAKING away my free TV licence and winter fuel allowance will mean I have to pay more. But taking away my bus pass will shrink my world. I use it to visit the supermarket, the park, the hospital and friends and relations. Unlike many of the Lords, I don’t have a chauffeur-driven limo. The environmental cost is negligible: the buses have to run, they would just have more empty seats. On the contrary, there would be more cars on the roads with some driven by people whose reactions are not what they used to be. Whatever the cost to the councils of providing the bus pass is more than offset by the saving to the NHS in antidepressants alone. By all means give the youngsters benefits, but please don’t rob us.

FRANK WALLIS, loughton, essex. THERE is outrage about the cost of the benefits pensioners receive. But we are being asked to vote in European elections we do not want and should not be taking part in. What do these cost? members of the Government should be covering this out of their own pockets.

ALAN WARD, sleaford, lincs.

SCARCELY a day goes by without our Lords and Ladyships making it clear how out of touch they are with people.

ALAN HARRISON, london N14. SCRAP pensioner perks, say the House of lords. scrap the House of lords’ perks, says this pensioner. B. BAKER, littlehampton, W. sussex.