What a crazy world we live in. Number 10 Downing Street is to have an £800,000 refurbishment and the US bombs a wedding.

Knighthoods are handed out like confetti to ageing pop stars and people of no consequence to the everyday running of society.

Felons are to be paid more money on their release from prison and schoolchildren will be paid £40 a week pocket money should they stay on at school rather than get a job that is not there.

Europolice will be introduced to our shores within five years rather than pay our own beleaguered police more money for recruitment.

Even Seeboard, once a national institution, is being bought out by the French.

Children will be able to obtain contraception at 11 years of age, even though the law states it is illegal under the age of 16 to have sex.

Fat cats are getting fatter and poor people are getting poorer.

House prices have spiralled beyond the reach of any young person wishing to buy and council houses are at a minimum, save for the privatised housing associations, which have to adhere to the wishes of their shareholders and management.

Politicians are becoming more shifty by the minute with their spin and jobs for the boys.

One wonders where it is all going to end. I have definitely come to the conclusion the world has gone barmy.

-Mick Venour, Southon Close, Mile Oak