I WOULD like to inform Walt Meadows (Letters, September 28) that I conveniently forget nothing. Nor would I say he does, only that he appears not to have known the facts in the first place and any cocoon that's lived in is occupied by himself.

Maggie Thatcher may have been returned, as he says, with an even greater majority. So what?

She achieved this by the usual Tory election promises - 'The health service is safe in our hands,' 'We won't touch VAT,' (then they doubled it); 'We have no intention of taxing fuel' - and more.

The Conservative Party is the 'party of low taxation,' but they have constantly put taxes up.

They got back in by promising the moon and all they've given us is moonshine.

Maggie Thatcher was responsible for trying to implement the iniquitous poll tax, saying, "Within a year, everyone will wonder what the fuss was all about." She found out when she was unceremoniously kicked out of office as will the rest of this inept government be at the next general election.

ALBERT J MORRIS, Clement View, Nelson.

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