A socialist coalition

Published: 8 October, 2010

• AT last! We have a socialist government. 

One that does not steal from the poor to give to the rich... such as espoused by Emily Thornberry and her Labour friends.

The coalition certainly gets my vote. Observe fellow Islingtonians... the middle classes may have to start drinking less fine bottles of wine and start holidaying in Torquay instead of Tuscany.

Child benefit will be withdrawn from the highest earners and it has taken a Tory-Lib Dem pact to achieve this ideal.

Well done.

I hope the policy Labour wants to adopt of giving free school dinners will now be ditched.

A ridiculous policy where the council tax-paying nurse on £18,000 a year subsidises the child of the £78,000-earning barrister.

GORDON MCINTOSH
Granville Square, WC1