Posturing rather than actually opposing

Sir, – In the recent budget the Con-dem alliance cut the top rate of tax for the highest earners. The Labour Party’s Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls boldly stated: “. . . we will vote against the 50p. It’s the wrong tax cut at the wrong time”.

Yet, when The SNP and Plaid Cymru introduced an amendment to parliament opposing Tory plans to cut the top rate of tax for the highest earners, the entire contingent of Scottish Labour MPS abstained.

It appears that posturing against the SNP is more important than opposing a Tory-liberal Budget which punishes pensioners and public sector workers and does nothing to stimulate the economy. Kevin Cordell. 2 Nevis Place, Broughty Ferry. on a bus the other day, and dropped it into the Broughty Ferry police station without leaving a name.

There was quite a lot of cash in it as well as credit cards, and I am grateful for their honesty. Thank you, too, to the police, and to the young woman at the lost and found office in Bell Street, who dealt with things efficiently and empathetically.

I have made a contribution to the Police Benevolent Fund in lieu of a reward. It’s good to know there are still honest, decent folk here in our city. Colin Hall. 42 Torridon Road, Broughty Ferry. working. Perhaps we should try another tack, including heavier penalties for drug dealers and consigning to drying-out units drug addicts who appear again and again before our courts for drug-related offences?

Stricter control of any pubs and clubs where drugs are taken would also help. The fewer opportunities there are for drug-dealing and drugtaking the better.

We must try something else, unless we want to see more and more of our young people ending up like the latest victim in Perth. George K Mcmillan. 5 Mount Taboravenue, Perth.