HAVING read through the Rich List, published recently, any suggestion that we are “all in this together” hardly stands up to scrutiny.

Quote: “The total wealth of the top 1,000 people based in Britain has risen by 5.4 per cent in the last year and has reached a record of £547.126bn.”

So the question has to be: What of those who are excluded from the turnaround in the economy? Should we disregard the fact that there is an unfair proportion of individuals who have no understanding of the needs of the many?

At the end of the Second World War, when there was unity of spirit and the will to overcome the vagaries and devastation of the war. The NHS came into being with no more worry as to where the money was going to come from for a doctor, together with medical checks for all school children and free school meals for those on the breadline.

Housing estates were erected countrywide and the task of rebuilding the country went on unabated.

Times were hard but we were “all in it together”.

Whilst, of course, the state of the economy is important, so too are people.

Without people the economy would amount to nothing.

But if there is to be a yardstick of measurement where would people be without a strong economy?

So In this respect one may only conclude that there must be an equal mix of the two.

Can we ever hope for the appreciation of the fact, that for this country to really prosper the division of “us and them” should be replaced with as “All for one and one for all”.

I rest my case.

C J Evans

Minchinhampton