THE letter from Barbara Crawford on behalf of Poole Quakers expressing quite legitimate concern on levels of inequality in this country prompts me to ask all the candidates for the forthcoming General Election how they propose to ensure that everyone pays their proper share of taxation as decreed by Parliament?

Only recently the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (with a Government majority) calculated that some £35 billion of tax revenue is lost through tax avoidance measures.

We may have lost an empire but we still control places like the Cayman Islands and HMRC seem quite unable to collect taxes legally agreed by Parliament; instead we are promised more austerity and further reductions in unfenced expenditure UKIP expresses a concern about leavIng the European Union and returning power to to the British people; would it were that simple! The threat to true democracy lies within our own institutions rather than in Brussels.

This country already has one of the highest levels of income inequality in Europe and our inability to enforce laws agreed by Parliament makes something of a mockery of the whole democratic process.

Gordon Cann

Craigmoor Avenue Bournemouth