IT IS now clear that in the dying days of New Labour they were getting the country in as much debt as possible.

Alastair Darling, the Chancellor, signed an agreement whereby British taxpayers would have to help to bail out other EU countries until 2013.

This would mean every family paying £300 each to bail out Portugal alone.

Another expensive load of bureaucracy – Lord Prescott’s “Sustainable Committees” plan: a clever “spin” name to proverbially cover much of England’s “green and pleasant land” in concrete.

In it, Gordon Brown promised to build three million new houses – a “vote grabber” which would crank up immigration, whether working of not.

Only 80,000 were actually built.

TR Paige, Home Butt Lane, Snaith.