IT really is a deceptive and farcical situation that this Government is still banging on about the so called deficit and their trying to pin the blame on the previous government.

Firstly even the Governor of the Bank of England has stated that the previous government was not to blame for what is effectively a global financial crisis bought on by the banks and their unregulated methods of lending out money, similarly Tory economist Ramesh Patel wrote an article as far back as 2012 where he asks David Cameron to apologise for perpetuating the myth of deficit.

We only have to look at the rest of the world and the austerity that is being imposed on dozens of countries as proof that the previous government did not create the deficit.

But the most dire part of this situation is the Government attempting to blame people on benefits for the monumental failings of the banks, and the vicious cuts to social provision that are being imposed on councils up and down the UK, which has resulted in the loss of services that took us decades to build up through our collective taxation, and of course to make matters worse Chancellor George Osborne has borrowed more money that any other party or leader in history in such a short space of time, yet he still has the gall to claim that this so called deficit is being paid off.

Steve Jones,

Morris Green