IN light of the fact that the country is on the brink of financial meltdown, it is staggering to learn that many of the country’s top bankers are not only still earning huge bonuses, but some are also getting new jobs on similar terms with banks that are now partly publicly owned.

Also, Northern Rock employees are to get bonuses despite seemingly being in the vanguard of selling sub-prime loans to people that cannot repay them.

The frustrating thing is that even though we live in a democracy and we are all going to be a lot worse off, we are powerless to stop such insane injustice.

All Gordon Brown will say is that it is a global problem and that he’s saving the world.

I can’t help thinking that the French would never put up with it and that they would have got their tractors and lorries and put them to good use in a blockade, or that they would have taken some action to show their government that they are not going to take such injustice lying down.

PAUL SHEERAN

Salisbury Street

Swindon