Robotic Government in need of a reboot

Sir, - I have read a lot recently about robots increasingly taking over jobs that hitherto have been done by humans.

This is a trend that will no doubt impact at different times, at a different pace on different sectors of society.

However, I do think that this trend is marked and has been impacting significantly for some time on the running of this country.

We seem to be under the rule, at Westminster, of a robotic Government that has a programmed way of doing things that cannot alter as circumstances change.

Like all robots they inhabit a world that is different from the rest of us.

This Government and the Tory Party have stuck to policies that have long been discredited and are detrimental to the majority but they continue to do the same old things in the same old way.

People on average wage are earning less than they were 10 years ago whilst the wealthiest in society continue to get tax cuts.

London has more billionaires than any other European city, yet one in five workers earn less than the living wage.

An Audit Commission report recently stated that for a group of schools built under PFI the cost was 40% more than if built through Government borrowing.

Big business gets rich whilst the rest of us get poorer.

Yet again the Government response is that all is fine and working well.

This Government needs reprogramming and quickly. Brian Batson. 7 Lour Road, Forfar.

Picture: Getty Images. Are those at Westminster little more than robots?