Disparity of wealth is ruining our society

A TYPICAL Daily Mail headline and right-wing call to arms last week was “When will we rein in the unions?”

I ask the opposite. “When will we rein in the fat cats and profiteers?” We are told they have all became richer these last few years.

Aren’t we seeing the same old cycle of Tory government once again? First they cut public services, cease recruitment and training of medical staff, turn a blind eye to the feathering of their and their mates’ nests. Blind us with lies of ‘levelling up’, more hospitals, more police and a brighter future.

A decade later and the workforce is exhausted, demoralised and poorer for it. Voices are raised in protest at being endlessly put upon and the Tories then blame them for holding the country to ransom and ruining the economy. The country is divided into us and them. I recall both the Heath and Thatcher governments doing the same.

Using Covid and Ukraine as an excuse for all their failings, the Tories now appear indifferent to the public unrest that may once again result in the street battles of the past.

They portray the unions, activists, the ‘loony left’, and wokeism as the enemy of us all whilst defending the “strivers” vigorously, justifying the ownership of several homes, yachts, jets while the many live in squalor or, worse, no home at all.

Nobody surely is so clever, works so hard or is so vital to warrant such wealth when many of our own are cold and hungry.

Letter writer Edward Kynaston speaks of want and need, yet appears to exclude the wealthy despite them being the worst culprits.

He is right when he states that strikes will hurt fellow workers in the short term, but to not stand against the growing wealth gap will be so much harder in the long term.

Disparity breeds envy, then resentment, hatred, crime and violence as morality is rationalised away by the greedy in the name of profit and becomes a luxury the needy cannot afford.

Whilst many in our parliamentary system ride the public-paid-for gravy train, I yearn for a complete overhaul to repair a political system that has lost its way. The people get the government they deserve is an old adage that seems pertinent in these self-interested times.

Peter Lawrence Dursley, Gloucestershire