'Legal' doesn't mean it's right; VIEWPOINTS.

THE majority of people in this country are at present being hard hit by the increased cost of utilities, food prices, council tax, tax on petrol and, of course, the credit crunch.

While executives of banks live like lords with their huge salaries, unbelievable pensions and pay-offs, they walk away smiling all the way to their offshore banks and safe havens for their ill-gotten gains.

These unscrupulous and morally bankrupt bankers are and, correctly, in my opinion, pilloried in the Press, but who can really blame them for grabbing all they can get? Who do they take their example from? far, just as far as the politicians in this country!

From top to bottom, politicians ignore the plight of the general public and grab whatever they can from the public purse whether it be large salaries and pensions, which they allocate to themselves, or allowances expenses for up to and including their kitchen sink plugs! Then they hide behind statements like "it is quite legal" - well, in my opinion, if what politicians are currently claiming as legitimate allowances and expenses is not criminal, it damn well should be.

Doug Bragg Spencer St Cathays, Cardiff