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Counting the cost of Sunak’s reign
It is unbelievable what Rishi Sunak is doing to this country and no one is doing anything about it. Sunak is one of the richest men in the country. How can he possibly relate to people on benefits and pensioners trying to survive on £900 per month? Council tax payments alone cost between £250 and £300 for a modest home.
Why isn’t he stopping the profiteering? Supermarkets, petrol stations, banks, energy companies, insurance companies, need I go on? Countless businesses are making obscene profits while people struggle to put food on the table, keep warm and cope with the rise of day-to-day living expenses. Not many people can enjoy a decent standard of living in the UK. Our food quality is appalling, our standing charges for electricity alone are at £0.69 per day, that’s over £20 per month just for the privilege of having an electricity supply. This is disgusting and NO ONE is doing anything about it. One year ago I was paying £0.16 per day how can these companies raise this charge by over 400%?
Can you as a voice for the people on benefits raise these issues? I hope so.
Michele Beavis
The far-away right
Every week, friendly and good-natured middle-class customers buy Big Issue outside Waitrose from a delightful and cheerful vendor. Most of us chat and give very willingly – usually more than the cover price. What do we get to read? Every Conservative thought or person is derided as ‘far right.’ Yet very few Conservatives I have met in Kent – in fact, none – are far right. Whereas every single letter in this week’s Big Issue is quite definitely far left. For years I have bought your magazine; do you think you could calm down a bit and be a bit more reasonable and British? Try talking to your customers, not just yourselves.
Peers Carter, Kent
Puppet master
Thank you for your lovely feature on Eric [Issue 1617, 27 May-02 June]. However, you missed out a critical member of the cast – Eric! The puppet was designed and operated (and probably made) by the wonderful Olly Taylor, and although we don’t see or hear him, Benedict Cumberbatch was very pleased with the way that Eric worked and how easy he was to act with and gave Olly great reviews in an article in Variety recently.
Ronni Lamont, Sittingbourn
