FOUR years ago my mother was taken into hospital and for nine weeks she lay in a coma. After six weeks, I was contacted by the hospital telling me my mother could not go home as she required 24 hour care, and would I find her a place as soon as possible.

They also stated that if she owned her own home, she would have to sell it to cover her care. We had no argument with this, but felt that the Labour government my parents had strongly supported all their lives was wrong to allow this to go on.

She was 93 when she died in hospital.

The latest revelations about government expenses have really made me angry, to think that while my mother lay dying they were all living “high off the hog”, many of them Labour members who she supported.

Since the Labour party came to power, they have just looked after themselves. We still have many items that need addressing like companies still being allowed pension contribution holidays, pensioners being taxed on their company pensions, older people having to sell off their homes to get care.

In my opinion MPs should receive the average wage of the country, also the average pension of the country and a building should be bought or built to house them in during their stays in London. They should have a travel pass for free travel concerning their government work

W B Lowe (Bill), Ellesmere Port

Have your say

THE MPs have had their say, the party leaders have had theirs, now it is time for the public to have its say and that should be through the ballot box in the form of a general election.

Over the last couple of weeks, the reputation of a number of our elected representatives has been irretrievably tarnished to such an extent that they can no longer claim to have a legitimate mandate to represent our views.

How can we be expected to take moral guidance from these “right honourable” people when all they have shown is contempt for parliament and contempt for the Great British people who have elected them into their positions. The answer is we simply cannot.

Only by having the opportunity to hold these people to account for their, unsavoury at best, criminal at worst, actions can we hope to restore any shred of confidence in the system that we are governed by.

One of the greatest assets of this country is its deep-seated tradition of political democracy. It is now time for the political elite to give the British people what they are owed, the chance to hold them to account for their actions. It is time for a general election.

It may be as a result of this that some MPs will pay the ultimate professional price but at least this time it will be at their own expense and not that of the tax-payer.

Andy Gilbert, Liverpool

Trapped in poverty

THE mainstream media has been “predictably misleading in the extreme” in their coverage of North Korea’s nuclear tests, writes Mr Molyneux, (Daily Post letters, June 2).

The fact is the North Koreans have had their land boundaries sealed by their all wise socialist rulers in order to try to prevent them fleeing from the socialist paradise being built there, to the decadent South – where, surprise, surprise, living standards are incomparably higher – even in times of depression.

The socialist rulers of North Korea have built up one of the largest and best-equipped armies in the world, at the expense of their people who, according to independent UN reports, have lived on the verge of starvation off and on for decades. It is a dreadful way to run a country by any criteria of judgment.

BW Hale, Upton