IF any of our MPs happen to read today's Star, perhaps they'd like to do the decent thing and drop a copy through the letterbox of the Prime Minister's seaside holiday retreat.
For it catalogues the woes of an ordinary, self-respecting family who have joined the growing ranks of the country's Credit Crunch Casualties.
Laura Whitney and Richard Webster have had more than their fair share of bad luck in dealing with money.
But, let's be honest: who hasn't?
Sadly for this couple - and their two delightful daughters - those problems conspired to deprive them of the roof over their heads.
Homeless, they did as anyone else would do after spending their working lives paying into the state system - they turned to that system for help.
Imagine their shock, their despair and, yes, their disgust when the system turned against them.
They simply didn't tick the right bureaucratic boxes.
If they had been part of the benefits brigade, there wouldn't have been a problem. If they'd been prepared to put out their hand and let the state feed their children, there wouldn't have been a problem. If they'd been brought up to believe the world owed them a living and they'd learned from an early age how to milk the benefits system without doing a day's work, there wouldn't have been a problem.
But in England, in 2008, Richard and Laura are among the invisible band of victims of the credit crunch - people with enough pride to want to help themselves and to teach their children the value of a hard day's work.
They don't want charity - or the bundles of benefits, which have replaced charity in our country today.
They want to create a steady, dependable life for themselves and their family.
Sadly, the system cannot see this. In fact, Richard and Laura are as good as being invisible.
No doubt publicity in The Star today will help address their housing problem. We hope so.
But there is a more troubling question, and it needs a holidaying Prime Minister to begin to sort this out: how can it be right for the system to turn a blind eye to a hard working and self-respectful couple who are driven to living in a car?
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