There was a perfect explanation of the present Conservative thinking in your report (‘Tourists want to spend’: shoppers in London share views on the mini-budget, 23 September), with one lifelong Tory voter, swinging a Selfridges shopping bag, telling your reporter that she was happy with the budget and that it will give her more to spend and give to food banks. “And hope the other people will as well,” she added. Thank you, m’lady. I will continue to live off and be grateful for your handouts.
Ariella Lister
Mill Hill, London
• Divine timing? Two days after the government embraced the failed nonsense of “trickle-down economics”, Sunday’s liturgy had the gospel reading of a poor man hoping to receive what falls from the rich man’s table. And the rich man goes to hell.
Rev Canon Steve Parish
Warrington, Cheshire
• On present evidence it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Liz Truss, while at Oxford University studying PPE, must have been absolutely ace at philosophy and politics (presumably in that order) as one can’t imagine she could have turned up for many economics lectures.
Caroline Taylor
Cardiff
• First we had Britannia Unchained. Now we have Britannia Unhinged. What next? Britannia Undone.
Ray McConville
Cullyhanna, County Armagh
• Surely “fiscal event” is a misnomer for Friday’s package. “Faecal event” would better describe its effects on 99% of us.
Anita Dickinson
London
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