WHY is anyone surprised what this Government does? (Re Mrs Carr, LET, August 14). I am losing a large amount of my pension due to my scheme being wound up.

Because people like myself were forced to pay into a private company scheme and with Government pamphlets stating that final salary schemes were guaranteed, Labour MPs were outraged and threatened to defeat the Government's proposed pension bill unless something was done. So what happens? The Government issues some figures which state they are helping people who have lost their pension and the bill goes through.

Labour MPs were fooled into thinking the Government had come to the aid of these people when, in fact, the actual sum involved is nowhere near enough.

If this Government can fool its own MPs it is not difficult to see how it can fool the general public.

The pension crisis has been caused mainly by Gordon Brown stealing £5billion every year since 1997 with yet another tax. At least Robert Maxwell only stole from his own pension fund - this Chancellor has ruined many pension schemes. He should be called MAX 2.

TREVOR WOODOCK, Earls Drive, Hoddlesden.