HELP the Aged are begging for donations to assist hungry and cold pensioners who cannot afford VAT on fuel.
Pensioners pay the same rate of tax as millionaires without regard to their ability to pay.
Have we who fought in the last war for sovereignty to sell our medals to pay VAT?
An EU directive does not permit our Parliament to remove VAT, nor to reject the thousands of regulations and laws imposed on us.
We are already virtually a part of a federalist state which makes our parliament redundant.
D BULLEN, Albany Road, Blackburn.
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