IS your correspondent (McVee, July 8) inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity?

When he claims that none of Tony Blair's shadow cabinet - a title which he got wrong in any case - is at loggerheads, I can only assume that either he, or the information fed to him, is months out of date.

You have only to look at education (to say nothing about the untidy mess of devolution) to realise that while Labour's so-called spin doctors would have us believe that all is fine, the truth is far from rosy.

Is Mr McVee in favour of comprehensive schools, or of grant maintained schools, like the one used by his own party leader and Harriet Harman?

Would he not agree that, in the unlikely event of the public falling for their "tell you afterwards" policies, Blair himself, to say nothing of hapless Harriet, would be in invidious positions should London Oratory School carry out their threat to go private?

Apparently, there are those in Labour's ranks who still believe that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

G BROADHURST, Sharples Street, Accrington.

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