FOR complacent rubbish, the letter (Citizen, June 28) submitted by Jack Croysdill, Press Officer to Joan Humble, takes the biscuit.

He writes of "the foundations for a better country laid over the past four years." Foundations laid? Props knocked away would be more accurate as will become apparent eventually.

Since Word War Two the Labour movement has been a disaster for this country. It began with the costly failure of nationalisation (which included the railways and is the root cause of recent troubles in that industry).

The introduction by Labour in the 60s of comprehensive education involved the destruction of schools where there was learning, discipline and tradition being replaced by some where there has been none. Standards were wrecked and a whole generation or more betrayed.

Labour's unwillingness at the same time to control immigration is the underlying cause of racial strife and unrest at present. And today's lot are aggravating the trouble by allowing in tens of thousands of economic migrants (not to mention the enormous cost, money which might well be spent on elderly people who served 1939-1945 and now have to sell their homes to meet care costs. Disgraceful!).

Finally, it is Labour's liberalising agenda that has caused the breakdown of family life and fuelled the crime wave. The fact that we have in prospect as a government these same people for the next 4-5 years is quite terrifying.

T L Entwistle,

Clifton Drive North, St Annes.