David H Cutler - Ravensworth Road, Mottingham (From News Shopper)

David H Cutler - Ravensworth Road, Mottingham

in Letters

When I heard David Cameron speaking of our sick society in addition to looking at the proletariat and the anti-social youngsters and the drug addicts, he might also take a good look at the question of the very highly paid chief executives of banks.

It is the bankers and stockbrokers we can thank mostly for the financial mess we are in today, along with the previous Labour government who sleepwalked through the crisis in its early stages. He wants to make sure that we are all in it together, not just the poor.

What amazes me is that we still have idiots standing in front of the television cameras telling us that if you want the people who have the skills to run the banks, you need to offer them the right going rate. This is a fairytale. Just look at what their skills have done for us so far. If they want to leave, let them and good luck to whoever employs them.

Many years ago I was considering working for the London Ambulance Brigade. When I saw what pay they were offering it was hardly enough to support a family of four. The introduction pamphlet said the reason for the low pay was to attract the right kind of people to the job. The kind of people who would put service before reward. It seems a good idea to adopt this policy for the bankers. The government is sorting out the poor fast enough so why not sort out the wealthy bankers? Yes indeed, when the bankers take such salaries and the bonuses if they can get away with it, without too much public pressure not to, then they are surely part of a sick society.

Very sick.

David H Cutler
Ravensworth Road, Mottingham