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Our nations are broke and in almost unimaginable debt thanks to the viral plague, which shows no sign of ending yet.

But still our politicians and pressure groups seek huge avoidable expenditures to continue.

These include building the HS2 railway, unchecked foreign aid and “greenery”, costing in total very many kings’ ransoms.

Projects like these must go, or we will know that the powers that be are financially insane.

The tremendous pressures, especially from the Green interests and Extinction Rebellion to maintain the futile attempts to influence an adverse climate, although set for far in the future, must be resisted.

Cancelling all renewable subsidies would save vast, now wasted, monies, without pain to us bill-payers.

Despite taxation increases, Perth and Kinross Council’s spending will soon be cut to the bone, with effects so dire as to depress local wellbeing beyond imagining, as on infrastructure, music and theatre culture and council house maintenance.

That might allow continuing spends on health and welfare and vital school and college education.

Limited central pools of money will go only so far and vanity expenditures, and many more, cannot continue.

We pay to have far too many politicians and their expenses, but how on earth could we reduce these numbers?

We are told the UK cannot expect recovery before 2025, so all nonessential costs cannot now be met.

Despite there not being a blitz or a shooting war, we are in for a grim future, so it’s no time to spend money we don’t have.

Charles Wardrop Viewlands Road West Perth