Our national debt is increasing by £650,000 a day, so they keep saying, and yet with all this austerity it continues to grow.

Now also with a extra million people so-called back into work, I must ask where is the extra revenue, as there does not seem to be any extra cash floating around? One million people each earning just £1 extra a day would make £1 million a day making £350,000 surplus. However this does not appear to be the case.

The coalition government has cut vital services that the poor depend on while maintaining wage increases to the top earners.

It has built lots more houses, as you can see for yourself, but it still has a housing shortfall of five million homes. We are seeing our once beautiful countryside built on for no benefit to the British public. We are seeing more people struggle with their bills and going to food banks.

Animals are suffering too as people can no longer afford to treat them and often a lot are abandoned. The facts are simple: the present coalition government has failed to deliver to the British public and the opposition is not offering any great changes that would impress us.

Our National Health Service will be sold off if we continue the way we are. The fact is not one of the 600-plus current Members of Parliament can address this issue as every country in the world is getting further into cashflow problems.

We do need change and a change in direction to again help the poor and needy or sickness will increase to a state where the rich will have to spend their money as the smell will be again real and on their doorsteps.

Andrew Hungerford, Churchlands, North Bradley.