Friday 9 April 2010

Letters to the Guardian

Would the Guardian do a public service and publish the salaries and bonuses of the CEOs opposing Labour's proposed NI increase, calculate the impact of a 1% increase in NI contributions on the wage bills of their companies, and estimate how many executives might need to lose their bonuses to pay for the increase?
Robert Fletcher
Oxford

In today's crowded marketplace, it is hard to find a way of discriminating between different companies offering products and services. It is therefore helpful to have a list of companies which have taken a clearly political stance to help the Conservatives. I need never darken their doors again.
Steve Hilditch
London

How many of the industrialists who signed letters about national insurance increases depend on the NHS or local schools? Instead of jobs read profits and bonuses; for workers read shareholders and for public service cuts read new business. It is good to know that through their crocodile tears they can still see the balance sheets!
Rev Maurice Wright
Shrewsbury