FOLLOWING the results of the council elections your Comment column (LET, May 7) said that "many Labour supporters stayed at home content with how the country is run." I would suggest that, far from being content, many 'Old Labour' voters - and there are a lot of them - are disillusioned by the so-called New Labour government's record over the past two years.
Having been elected in 1997 with a massive majority, they have ditched many of the socialist principles that gave birth to this once great party.
New Labour has gone a long way along the path of alienating its traditional supporters in the manufacturing areas of the country.
People on the Left of the political scene are now realising there is little difference between the present-day parties now on offer to the voter.
I, now in my middle sixties, have voted Labour in every election since obtaining the vote at 21.
This time, along with the majority, I realised I had no viable alternative but to stay away from the polling station.
ROLAND WHINNEY, Dorset Street, Burnley.
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