Letter: Job creation myth

Douglas Alexander MP is at pains to claim that while he supports the eradication of a benefits culture, he says that the government should be creating jobs.

Either this is pure politician speak or he's a fool: the government cannot create jobs. In effect he's like a drug addict who wants to kick the habit, but just one more fix please then I'll stop.

Channel 4's programme Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story should be mandatory viewing for all politicians and public sector workers. In a nutshell, it exploded the myth that the state can create wealth or jobs and confirmed that the public sector must be cut to the bone in order to allow the country to grow out of the mess we are in.

It is high time everyone wrote to their MP, MSP, MEP and told them that trimming the size of government(s) should be in their manifesto or they won't get the vote.

Time and again the narrator of the programme reminded the viewer that it is the private sector worker who pays for everything the public sector spends including their wages.

All this money is ostensibly spent to bring good health and education to everyone when actually it is keeping millions of civil servants in jobs we don't need. They claim they want to eradicate poverty, an impossible task using a pseudo-socialist model; check out the failed USSR experiment.

STAN HOGARTH

Young Street

Strathaven