DESPITE regular press and other media cries from the leading members of the Coalition government that things are getting better, it appears clear they are the only people who think this way.

Cameron, Clegg, Osborne, Iain Duncan Smith et al should start to look at the realities of living in today’s Britain.

It comes to something when the Archbishop of Canterbury states publicly (The Press, December 8) that he “was left more shocked by the plight of Britain’s hunger-stricken poor than suffering in African refugee camps”.

The church was also known as the Tory party at prayer; perhaps they are now beginning to get off their knees.

It comes to extraordinary levels of incredulity when the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) describes Osborne’s unstated words in the House of Commons Autumn Statement as leading to the cut back of the state to the area of the 1930s.

Readers might need reminding that the OBR was actually set up by this Coalition government as an independent body to return Britain to a stable financial situation after the disastrous banking crisis in America that Britain sadly became embroiled in.

Therefore it is an early warning to the populace when the OBR write in a report immediately after the Autumn Statement, that “the cuts set out in Treasury assumptions would see the state reduced to its smallest size relative to GDP for 80 years”.

When will this Coalition ever learn?

Howard Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York.