Greedy MPs

Anne Moffat, the Labour MP for East Lothian, must be laughing all the way to the bank after striking a retirement deal guaranteeing her £30,000 per year for the rest of her life. After an unedifying public battle in which the Labour Party tried to ban her from standing at the next general election, Ms Moffat has managed to secure her own future. Her price, it seems, was £30,000 per year for life, having done very little except claim expenses and turn up to a few meetings. She must be exhausted

Meanwhile, teachers, nurses, firemen and real public servants struggle to pay for her and others like her. No wonder Scotland is such a bad state after a few years of the SNP and Labour in control.

Let's use this election to kick out all self-serving, greedy, money-grabbing MPs. They don't understand how to manage a budget. We can't afford them and they don't have the public interest at heart.

MRS B J THOMSON

Moray Place

Edinburgh

We now find that deselected Labour MP Anne Moffat had already cut an ill-health early retirement deal of a 32,000 lump sum and an annual index-linked pension of 30,000 per annum (your report, 26 March).

This is appalling. Her ordinary constituents, in order to receive such a pension at age 51, would need an accumulated pension fund of around 600,000. At a time when we are being reminded by sanctimonious politicians that we are "all in this together" and that we all need to "shoulder the burden", this is rampant hypocrisy.

The Chancellor tells us that public sector departments can reap efficiencies by turning off their office lights. It is high time that the lights were turned off on pensions-for-nothing deals, such as this.

DAVID F DONALDSON

Lawers Crescent

Polmont, Falkirk