As you get out of bed on these cold and frosty mornings, regardless of your circumstances to keep a roof over your head and feed your family, then at the end of the week or month depending on your pay sequence, look at the deductions you think are necessary to help people in more need than you.

Step up to the plate, as they say in Swindon, once a renowned railway town, Mr Ion Lazar, a Romanian who lives in London, who arrived on our shores less than a year ago with his wife and three children.

I thought many Londoners came here in the 60s because they could not afford to live in the city of their birth then, never mind now.

He expects to put £60,000 over the next three years into building a luxury home in his homeland at British taxpayers’ expense without contributing one penny to the British state.

By the way, he works as a scrap metal dealer.

I quote his words, “It is free money; thank you England.”

May I offer a personal challenge to our two Swindon Conservative MPs, as well as all prospective candidates of supporters of the European Disunion to reply to me on the letters page regarding this abuse of taxpayers’ money, while pensioners freeze to death?

Where essential services are being reduced, even affecting handicapped kids.

I await their answers with great anticipation, as we near a disgracefully extended time limit on the moment of truth for these charlatans.

Bill Williams Merlin Way Swindon