WHAT a clever slogan David Cameron gave the nation shortly after taking office when he said: “We are all in this together!” A stirring cry to an angry nation, beset by so many difficulties left by others... but open to interpretations.

Those who are generally accused of today’s economic disaster, the banking fraternity, have their own interpretation of togetherness, with business as usual and to hell with any restrictions on their corporate empire. Their favourite TV series was surely The Untouchables.

That feeling must also be shared by some bosses of British rail services In contrast to the swingeing fare increases to commuters they enjoyed huge salaries on top of other mouth-watering perks, including free rail travel last year. Beyond any doubt it is not just the EU which earns the nickname of “gravy train”, subscribed to in great part by British taxpayers but others in our society who are passing on government cuts to their customers.

The quangos too,which Cameron promised to abolish or curb, have for some reason been reprieved. “All in this together” – a fine slogan in itself – is simply rhetoric from the mouth of he who promised in the weeks before the General Election to undo much of what had angered so many of us, including retrieval of powers lost to that gross body of waste in Europe. The slogan for those least well-off now suffer-ing the huge cuts is not Cameron’s version but: “We are financially ‘in the altogether’ in this.”

BERNARD CLARK, Poole (full address supplied)