EURO-MP Michael Hindley (LET, November 17) seems to be suffering from political jet-lag. He claims to be committed to Labour's 1983 manifesto, which puts him 14 years behind the times with Labour.
But does it matter? The fact is that none of Labour's manifestos had anything to do with the interests of wage and salary workers.
Labour's concern has always been to increase the efficiency of the rate of exploitation of the working class.
As for back-to-the-future Mr Hindley, he never stood for anything more than state capitalism, whereby the workers are exploited by a privileged party elite on behalf of investors in Government bonds.
BRIAN LIVESEY (member, Socialist Party of Great Britain), Belfield Road, Accrington.
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