'Junior doctors, NHS staff and engine drivers should thank pensioners for their pay rises'

REGARDING the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance for certain pensioners.

The problem now occurs that those pensioners who are say £2 over the limit to claim benefit, will be the pensioners that are really heading for a rough winter.

The pensioners in this category will now have to decide whether to heat their homes,or buy food and suffer a very cold house.

What I would suggest is that the junior doctors,NHS staff and perhaps the doctors should thank all those pensioners that have funded these big fat rises.

The engine drivers have also been awarded a pay rise that a lot of pensioners only have to live on.

It would also appear that the chancellor who was hoping to save several billions by scrapping this winter fuel allowance has now wiped out all the savings which she was hoping to make by all these pay rises.

Trafford Reeder,

Marlborough Wharf.

York

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New rules for members of trades unions

THE direction in which this government is heading concerning those employed in the public sector suggests it is only a matter of time when those who are members of a trade union will be legally entitled to decide when to or not work depending on their mood of the day, without fear of discipline.

In the meantime, those working in the private sector will be strangled by more and more inane suffocating dik-tats from government ministers totally clueless on how to organise a booze up in a brewery, yet they think they possess the competence required to run the country.

Peter Rickaby,

West Park,

Selby

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Good move from council

OUR Labour council selling unsuitable properties to use the money to provide more much needed accommodation deserves praise.

LibDem criticism is absurd, especially given their track record of wasting money when in charge of council.

Labour should consider selling some of the city's commercial properties, even at a small loss, to finance public housing and let buyer/entrepreneurs revive our dead high streets, Coney Street especially.

John Zimnoch

Osbaldwick,

York

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