WITH the scramble for votes intensifying, I wish all those standing for Parliament would address two fundamental questions.

1. As a country, how can we best generate the wealth necessary to improve the quality of our lives and meet all the commitments and promises that our politicians have made?

2. Year after year, successive governments have spent more money than they have collected in taxes and have borrowed the difference – is it fair that our children and grandchildren will have to repay debts that we have taken out today because we cannot live within our means?

Unless we are serious about these issues, we will end up beholden to our creditors and I do not want my country to face the same sort of disaster that confronts the Greek people today.

Richard Hornbrook

Stroud