Reader's Letter: Scaremongering is beyond belief

Let’s face it, the only reason we have such an appalling government now is because of the huge amount of money the Tories were able to spend before the last election scaremongering on a mammoth scale and sadly of course people believed it.

Even in our own newspaper we saw whole page adverts telling us how Nicola Sturgeon would control a Labour administration.

It has always been the same and for all the political parties too.

Instead of telling us what they will do (usually because they won’t do anything) they prefer to tell us how damaging it would be for us to vote for someone other than them.

I think this behaviour is what has turned so many people off politics and has resulted in what Brian Oosthuysen says in his letter in the SNJ of November 4.

We are all able to vote but so few bother we end up with the sort of administration we have now.

We may live in a democracy but this government clearly isn’t interested in looking after the interests of the majority.

One only has to look at the vote in the House of Lords the other day about tax credits.

Because the Lords seem to be more in touch with the electorate and more concerned about their welfare this appalling government threatens them with rubbish about it being “unconstitutional” and “they will have to be dealt with”.

How childish can these so-called politicians be?

How many of them have been affected by austerity, how many of them visit foodbanks, how many of them will lose tax credits?

If it hadn’t been for a previous Labour government there still wouldn’t be a minimum wage in this country and when it was introduced we just had scaremongering from the Tories about how it would cost jobs.

When the hunting ban was brought in we had scaremongering from the Tories about how many jobs would be lost, how many hounds would be lost, how we would be overrun by foxes and how the whole of country life would collapse.

Howard Price

Nailsworth