REGARDING your story and opinion (LET, December 30) about Euro MP Mike Hindley's remark that Tony Blair is a Tory, it is a known fact that Mr Hindley has always leaned towards left-wing socialism. He and the world knows that it died years ago.

Gorbachev had the courage to chop socialism - he had seen the result of 70 years of it in Russia. Now, Tony Blair has seen the light and chopped left-wing socialism. It is a dogma of the past.

New Labour takes the place of the 'old,' let's see if it will work - although it shows some cracks and a certain amount of unrest already after only six months. So it's goodbye Mr Hindley and his East European cronies. He wouldn't be welcome back there, would he?

BILL BIRCH (Conservative), Rudyard Drive, Darwen.

Previous news story

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.