HAS Bill Jacobs had a sudden attack of shyness? I had to look through quite a bit of my Telegraph before finding his article (LET, August 9) on the first 100 days of Blair's rule, tucked away on an inside page as it was.

Can't blame him, I suppose, because they have achieved so little - plenty of discussion groups, but precious little else, apart from a long list of things which are, perhaps, better kept under wraps.

Things such as a Labour MP suspended for alleged bribery, the suicide of another under allegations that he was gay, and the suspension of the whole of the Doncaster Labour Party.

You could follow this with the Foreign Secretary playing away from home like David Mellor.

Then we have the Budget's 17 tax rises, four rises in interest rates, students' overdrafts so that the only people who could afford to send their offspring to medical school would be the rich!

This, of course, does not cover the four monetary raids on the Reserves, the windfall tax, the Lottery, and, worst of all, making Robert Maxwell look like a learner, with their assault on pension funds.

Is it not a little ironic that so often Labour have gone to the Lottery for funds which was brought in by the last Conservative government?

GRANVILLE BROADHURST, Sharples Street, Accrington.

Footnote: Bill Jacobs does not decide the position of his articles in the paper - he merely writes them - Editor.

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