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Labour's lost the common touch
THANKS to the Daily Telegraph our greedy nanny state, politically-correct preaching government is getting its long-awaited comeuppance.
For too long the Labour Party has talked down to the general public, like teachers talking to five-year-old children and they have always thought that they are the bosses of people in falling-apart Britain, with their superior, pompous attitudes.
With the exception of Joanna Lumley's brilliant campaign for the Gurkhas, the Government never seems to listen or act in favour of the public opinions about important issues.
The arrogant words of "we will press ahead with the scheme anyway" have constantly been spoken by politicians who take absolutely no notice, even when the public have been given a chance to vote against something that they clearly do not want.
A prime example of ignoring public opinion was to include British forces in the pointless Iraq war and also to force upon us crazy schemes such as road charging tolls, congestion zones, increasing car taxes and the future possibility of ID cards.
I, for one, will be extremely glad to see the back of the bullying dictators in the Labour Party and those views are coming from someone who was a staunch Labour voter up to 1999.
Paul Wilkinson, Mirfield
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