I, like Joan Bakewell, am in my 90s, and despair that my taxes are funding despicable and even unlawful government policies (My advice on inheritance? Give it away: it’s one of life’s last pleasures, 29 August).
These include, for example, giving Rwanda £120m for its stalled migrant deal; doubling financial support to MPs who will lose their seats in next year’s election; spending millions on arms manufacture and supporting genocidal and racist regimes, irrespective of their bad human rights records; and keeping thousands of traumatised asylum seekers in costly hotels, when most of them are desperate to work and contribute to our ailing economy.
