RUSSELL BRAND campaigns against social and corporate injustice through his Trews Reports and amusingly accused Nigel Farage of being a poundland Enoch Powell.

It was Powell who said that all political careers end in failure, so how has Hugh Bayley done?

Hugh supported New Labour’s authoritarian ID cards, the same authoritarianism that foists an all-woman shortlist on to York.

Yet New Labour betrayed working-class women such as stay-at-home mums, the mainly female carers and single parents, their theft of women’s retirement at age 60 and the young women among New Labour’s 929,000 NEETs in 2010.

Since 1992, traditional industry in York has collapsed while food banks, poverty and housing waiting lists have all flourished between New Labour and the current incompetents.

Under New Labour local post offices closed alarmingly, NHS privatisation grew with the dental service turned upside down.

Hugh supported illegal war in Iraq and occupation of Afghanistan.

His urging of sanctions on Russia has seen their economy crumbling, damaging UK and EU export opportunities which hardly hurt the US.

New Labour supports the Tories’ Universal Credit, caps on benefits and austerity in an assault against the working class.

From these perspectives, it appears Enoch was right.

Tom Scaife, Manor Drive, York.