PRIME Minister David Cameron now wishes to communicate to the nation that he is a Christian and hethinks Christian values would serve Britain well. He has a very strange way of living the Christian belief.

This government has treated the poor with contempt, denied them rights to a proper life and he has presided over the largest increase in the number of food banks ever.

He thinks zero-hours contracts are a good idea because he believes people like to have them. Big business certainly believes in them but I’m not quite sure where Christian values come into this.

He thinks that redefining marriage, against Christian teaching, is a good idea; his government has rewritten history. I don’t know of any country in the last 10,000 years throughout the definition of marriage that we have now again I fail to see the Christian values prominently here.

It frightens me when politicians start to take on the role of being a Christian or any other religion. It is hard to live up to Christian values and, in my opinion, David Cameron certainly does not.

I think the strain of power is having an exceedingly bad effect if believes he is doing God’s work.

He provides laws that allow Christians to be persecuted for living the faith and wearing symbols of their faith and then says his Christian values would transform the world. I believe this to be true but when your actions show that you are a hypocrite it’s even more damaging to the faith. If David Cameron means what he says he should stop the persecution of the poor and allow the rich man to try pass through the eye of a needle.

Ian Greenhalgh Jesmond Road Bolton