IN response to Mr Acton’s letter where he writes that the country’s finances should be run like a household. That we should not spend more than what we have coming in, that we should live within our means. I know many readers would strongly agree and in principle so do I. However, there are several things Mr Acton fails to mention.

First he gives the impression that during the good years the House of Britain family dined on caviar, steak and champagne, but that was only the rich.

Then he implies we should all now be eating beans on toast as we have overspent. Yet the rich in the House of Britain still dine on caviar, steak and champagne while the poor have to go to food banks. I don’t know of any household that would divide its family like that.

As for living within our means, by the summer the British economy will finally be back to the size it was before the crash. Yet the tax income will be £80 billion less. Why? Simply because the richest have had a tax cut and businesses have had a tax cut so they can keep paying rich shareholders.

Living within our means is fine if the Government is fair to all and collects the right income.

Finally, to say this Government is doing well reducing the deficit is laughable. The Tory medicine was to have it balanced by 2015 and they are not even half way there.

Tony Withers Latchford