ROY WHITE, of Naseby Drive, Heathfield, writes:

Barry Kaye in MDA 9th July uses the understandable tactic, in the situation the Labour Party finds itself, of trying to emphasize the differences between the coalition as it exists in central government and the position in the country as a whole between the parties concerned. It is to be hoped that the Great British electorate will realise that extreme situations call for extreme measures, and the existence of a coalition is by no means the least of them.

Mr Kaye praises Mr Brown; but who was in charge when the banks were allowed to behave in such a reckless and greedy manner? Furthermore Mr Kaye lives in the hope that the Labour Party will be reelected on the back of a favourable return on the government investment in the banks. Does Mr Kaye not realise that the Coalition's policies will have to be a great success for the banks to return to prosperity sufficient for that quasi nationalization to make a good return on the investment made? Labour's tax, borrow and spend would never have worked.

If memory serves, since the first time in 1924, the British electorate has given Labour 11 opportunities to bankrupt this country and on the 11th they came within a whisker of succeeding; let us hope they are never granted another chance.