WHILE the Daily Echo's editorial refers to the Government knowing of the consumers' ability to talk ourselves into a credit crisis, I am forced to wonder if that is the root of the problem.

Since the election in 1997 the Government has lied, albeit cloaked in the disguise of spin to such an extent that now when the chips are really down, nobody believes or trusts the people we have put in charge.

EDWIN MORRIS, Weston, Southampton.