AS Victor Meldrew used to say in the television series One Foot In The Grave: “I don’t believe it!”

What I don’t believe is the effrontery of the Lib Dems to request a cash injection focusing on social care and mental health services (The Press, March 20).

I support more Government funding of the NHS, but I must say that the Lib Dems are just being opportunistic and trying to jump on the back of the Labour party, who invented and brought into life the NHS in 1948 and spent many, many millions of pounds on the NHS when the electorate voted us into Government, and much, much more when elected between 1997 and 2010.

I have recently read Nick Clegg’s political memoirs, written after his five-year stint as Deputy Prime Minister, propping up a Tory Government that couldn’t run the country with no overall majority (2010 to 2015).

In his memoirs, Nick Clegg admits that at a specially convened meeting of the coalition committee his “political antennae ... was dulled by exhaustion, I didn’t spend enough time asking how (the proposals) would be received by the public - or by an NHS workforce fed up to the back teeth with constant organisational upheaval”.

This is not the first time the Lib Dems have been caught asleep on the job and with their finger off the pulse. The electorate should beware.

Howard Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York