9:59am Monday 15th March 2010
By Reader's letter
I have observed over recent weeks the emerging pre-election political pantomime which will undoubtedly accelerate as the day of destiny creeps ever closer.
For those with an interest in current affairs, the forthcoming election takes place against a unique backdrop of policy failures of various magnitude in education, pensions, crime, immigration, illegal wars, MPs’ expenses and, of course, the dire state of public finances. For those who are interested (and I believe many voters, as well as the Government, are in denial) the UK is currently having to borrow £500,000,000 per day; this is quite simply untenable, particularly considering that the benign global climate of low interest rates cannot be sustained indefinitely.
This discredited and clapped-out Government has presided over and helped create the most disastrous set of circumstances ever experienced in peacetime conditions. Our economy is in ruins, supported only by a mountain of unsustainable debt, large numbers of young people emerge from school semi-literate and numerate with a deliberately engineered lack of feeling of pride in our country or its rich heritage.
Similarly, our national identity and culture have been purposefully dismantled in the wake of uncontrolled immigration both from within the EU and outside.
In many of these, and other areas, the electorate has not at any stage been consulted, because of the breathtaking arrogance of those in power.
The Prime Minister recently described the Labour Party as the “party of aspiration”.
Perhaps, if he is booted out at the next election, he could audition as a comedian, except his words are in no way amusing and the consequences of his re-election too dire to consider.
Martin Smith, Main Street, Elvington, York
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