Signed off school with Beatlemania | Brief letters
by Letters from on (#3KHDK)
GKN | National debt | Beatlemania | Hamlet relief | Returning the empties | Offenbach
If the government fails to intervene to prevent the acquisition of GKN by Melrose it will be further proof, if any is needed, that the UK is being run for the benefit of big business (Outcry as GKN falls to hostile takeover, 30 March). If the takeover is permitted, it is clear that shareholders will walk away with fat profits while employees will be flung on to the jobs market to scrabble for precarious work and zero-hours contracts.
Jane Sutherland
Reading, Berkshire
" The Tory government claims that the UK economy is safe in its hands, yet the national debt has recently passed 2tn having been at .75tn when it came to power. Why is this not discussed or commented on?
Marilyn Hulbert
Bath