<strong>Letters: </strong>The Tory party’s reliance on trickle-down economics will leave society poorer, says <strong>Richard</strong> <strong>Tudway</strong> of the Centre for International Economics. Plus letters from <strong>Malcolm Stanton, David Plumpton </strong>and <strong>Joan Friend</strong>
Jim OâDonnell respond to an article by Ed Miliband
Delivery drivers outside a McDonaldâs in Windsor. âSuccessful, sustainable enterprises are founded on decent remuneration and civilised working conditions,â says Lee Mortimer. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock
Delivery drivers outside a McDonaldâs in Windsor. âSuccessful, sustainable enterprises are founded on decent remuneration and civilised working conditions,â says Lee Mortimer. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock
Letters
Tue 19 Jan 2021 11.23 EST
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Itâs ironic that those who feel this is the way to the countryâs future prosperity instinctively rail against the state providing social welfare. Have they learned nothing from the furore over feeding the children of the working poor? Do they dream of a Victorian industrial utopia, where death and injury were commonplace and those that fell on hard times had to go into workho