Susan Thomas, Oxford

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Sir

I was very encouraged to learn that our new Prime Minister, David Cameron, is proposing to decriminalise non TV licence payers.

During my Masters degree in Criminology I learnt that many poor women with young children were being sent to Holloway Jail simply for being unable to afford the licence fee and the £1000 fine.

Thus an unjust return to the Dickensian days of debtors prison was occurring in our modern times.

I now see that the new Conservatives are compassionate politicians.

I therefore sincerely hope that our caring Prime Minister overrules Lord Freud`s bedroom tax as this was a political mistake that inadvertantly fuelled the meteoric rise of the SNP.

Furthermore this strategic error has led to rows upon rows of empty 3 bedroom houses in the North of England that landlords are no longer able to rent out.

So, from every conceivable political angle, this supposedly money saving strategy of Lord Freud was a gargantuan error.

I sincerely hope that our caring and shrewd Prime Minsiter will rectify matters soon.

SUSAN THOMAS

43 MAGDALEN ROAD

OXFORD