IS KARL McCartney for real when he suggests that last week's Budget will bring prosperity to Lincoln?

On behalf of our new Conservative MP, I will explain.

If people have no money, they can't buy anything, shops can't sell and businesses go under, meaning job losses.

Yet again, we have seen a return to looking after the rich, hammering the poor in this Tory/Tory-wannabe coalition.

Fiscal think tanks have pointed out that the Budget will hammer those on lower incomes and only 10 per cent of the country's richest will feel the pinch.

It is not lost on me that the country is in a state with the economy, but this Budget is going to hurt the families who do go out to work and try the best they can on the income they get.

Tory leader David Cameron spoke pre-election about supporting hard-working, law-abiding families. Well, where is the incentive to go out and work hard, when you will get only a fraction more than if you were on the dole?

I know we have to do something about the welfare system – it is a drain on this country. But it is the honest, ordinary person on an average wage who will be worst off again, paying for the financial sector's mistakes.

What makes me sick is that Cameron and Co look so upset, but they couldn't wait to get the knife into the public sector. It is Class War part two.

Our public services provide essential work to the benefit of this country, but the Tories and the Betrayal Party (Lib Dems) are pleased with themselves.

Cameron has made a gesture of not accepting his PM's pension; that must have been such a tough one to call for the multi-millionaire landowner.

Get real, Karl, you are MP for Lincoln, not the city of Westminster.

T. O'Boyle Lincoln.