DAVID Keyworth of Chandler’s Ford (Letters, November 1) asks whether it is right to give pensioners a discount on their council tax.
I think it is. Often I hear it said that public sector workers didn’t cause the economic problems that the country faces, and I agree with that. But equally neither did savers and pensioners. Pensioners in Southampton have been disproportionately hit by a decade of soaring council tax increases under Labour.
Today, with interest rates at a historic low, they are penalised again. While ultra-low interest rates is good news for families with mortgages and for a Government running a huge budget deficit, they are are a disaster for pensioners and savers on fixed incomes.
It is unfair that they should shoulder the costs of Labour’s economic mess. To suggest that pensioners in Southampton are better off is wrong too. As most pensioners reading this will know, despite what Labour think and say, they are not rich.
CLLR JEREMY MOULTON, Deputy Leader of Southampton City Council.
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