LAST week's letter about cuts the coalition government has to make because of the deficit of the last government don't add up.

When David Cameron was in opposition he said he would match Labour's spending plans pound for pound. In fact he said Labour was not spending enough in which case had he been in power the deficit would have been bigger.

He did not support Northern Rock nor any of the other banks in which case, had you put your card in the cash machine, no money would come out because all the banks would have collapsed without the government support. He also opposed the minimum wage, saying thousands of jobs would be lost but thousands of jobs were created. He has got every call on the economy wrong, big time.

He then said on the TV debate that a coalition government would be a disaster and the following week jumped into bed with Nick Clegg to form a disaster. And now he wants to increase VAT to 20 per cent which will hit everyone, the poor and the vulnerable. We know you have to deal with a deficit but that does not mean you can make bad policies and bad decisions.

We had a deficit in 1945 twice as large as today but we did not slash and burn. We went out and built the National Health Service.

Mr Cameron says we are all in this together but none of his wealthy friends will be hit by cuts.

T LISTON via email