AT A TIME when the world, as a result of the various bank crises, seeks to deal with the misery that the excesses of capitalism can create, David Cameron sees fit to appoint a venture capitalist as an advisor on how best to revise employment law.

Venture capitalists have about as much interest in workers’ rights as Jeremy Clarkson does for the environment.

In essence, the advice was to allow employers to hire and fire at will, and get rid of all those irksome impediments such as protecting workers in the workplace and unfair dismissal tribunals.

The advisor did acknowledge that a downside might be that you could be fired because your employer did not like you. Still, why let a little thing like that stand in the way of the profit motive?

Welcome to the brave new world of the Conservative 21st-century workplace.

Stephen Salby, Mill Farm, Yapham.