Slavery is still alive

IN her article Ms Perry states that people will be better off by 2020 but fails to say how some will manage until then with the proposed major cuts in their income, for some of the poorest, around £1,300 a year. These people did not create the present financial crisis but are being made to pay for it. She complains about an unelected House of Lords. I take it that the present Government will now be putting in place plans to scrap the present system for membership of the House of Lords and have an elected upper house, I think that comes under the heading of democracy. As to modern day slavery, that is alive and doing well, it’s called zero hours contacts. Working people are not sure as to what they will earn from week to week and very little protection within the law when they are exploited. Five thousand jobs are going in the steel industry yet the latest major contract for the Army will be using Swedish steel. There are always alternatives and it's a poor state of affairs when the upper house has to make the Government put some compassion into its policies.