RE JUSTIN Tomlinson’s article of 10 July, how little has changed down the years!

He repeatedly uses what George Orwell termed doublespeak: ‘hardworking families’, ‘fairness’, ‘one nation.’ Empty meaningless phrases used to deceive the gullible.

This is a government committed to ‘fairness’ so much that it that cuts the benefits paid to the vulnerable!

Have we ever known a more divisive budget? It is as though George Osborne is punishing many poorer and larger families and young people as he dares.

The educational opportunities for the young now resemble those of the 1920s.

Thanks to Mr Tomlinson’s masters we face a generation of graduates coming mainly from the wealthier echelons of society, for how many young people would want to graduate with debts of over £50,000?

Furthermore, there is no point in Osborne boasting about a ‘living wage’ if he takes away many poorer people’s tax credits and housing benefit.

A Budget from a ‘one nation government’ boasts Mr Tomlinson, yet why are young people being so unfairly treated by cutting their benefits and their education grants and stopping them claiming a living wage?

Mr Tomlinson’s masters have deceitfully labelled the new minimum wage ‘a national living wage’, which it is not.

How is this ‘one nation’ Mr Tomlinson, when you are punishing poorer people while helping the wealthier by cutting inheritance and dividend taxes and corporation tax?

It cannot be right to make the poorer and younger in society pay for the banking crisis.

It is once again the rich who have got the better deal.

Experts reckon that 13 million families will be worse off thanks to the fanatic Chancellor Osborne. The One Nation Nasty Party is back on form.

JEFF ADAMS Bloomsbury, Swindon