LABOUR'S proposal to tax financial transactions has been dubbed a 'Robin Hood tax'.

Now the Tories have come up with their counter-proposals which can be accurately described as 'the Sheriff of Nottingham’s revenge'.

Abolition of free school meals for primary school pupils, scrapping the universal winter fuel allowance for pensioners, removing 'triple lock' income protection for pensions, and threatening the elderly in care with the loss of their homes and life-time savings, the latter cynically concealed behind raising the savings threshold before paying for care to £100,000.

Notable by its absence too is any talk of reining in tax avoidance, evasion, or the runaway salaries of Big Business executives, which are now bigger than ever, whilst the wages of the workers they employ have been pegged at or below inflation rates for ten years or more.

So the electorate of this country faces a clear and unmistakeable choice on June 8.

They can either re-elect the Sheriff of Nottingham (the Tories) or vote in Robin Hood (Labour).

James Roberts, Wallasey.