Isn’t it just marvellous that on the same day that 10,000 more workers, from Connaught Builders, were thrown out of work, Barclays bank appointed a new chairman on a salary of £1.35m.

It’s good work if you can get it, of course, as the Con-Dem coalition tell us: “We’re all in this together.”

The trouble is, it’s blindingly obvious to most, that it’s one rule for us and a totally different set for the elite.

The new chairman Bob Diamond just received £26m in shares and bonuses. He is set to receive another £10m on top of his obscene salary.

Another one of these leeches who caused the crisis we find ourselves in, HSBC chairman Stephen Green, is to become the new Con-Dem Trade Minister.

Now tens of thousands of ordinary folk have to pay back PAYE tax, caused predominantly because 25,000 jobs were lost when the HM Revenue and Customs was formed in 2005 (from the defunct HM Customs and Inland Revenue).

You’ll notice there will ne no non-doms, lords or bankers, who have to pay any tax back.

After all: “We’re all in this together.”

Workers (and I include our pensioners) endure a pay freeze and job cuts, while the rich just get richer.

According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the poorest were hardest hit with the recent Emergency Budget. You even had a Liberal Democrat councillor in these pages, extolling the virtues of the Con-Dem policy and how wonderful they’re doing.

I cannot understand how so many people are duped by lies that the last bunch of crooks got us into this mess.

They’re all the same. After all, was not the Tory manifesto policy at the 2005 election to cut public services by 25 per cent? Ring any bells?

Tim W Siret, Millmoor Crescent, Eynsham