My history is very different

From the Swindon Advertiser, first published Monday 21st Feb 2005.

WITH regard to K Ratcliffe's letter in Saturday's Evening Advertiser, I confess that I do not remember the 70s very well.

I guess that I was too busy at school to notice Mr Ratcliffe's apocalypse.

What I do remember is Swindon's railworks being sold down the river by Margaret Thatcher's Tory Government after 1983, with Swindon's then Tory MP doing nothing to speak up for the town he purported to represent.

What I do remember is interest rates reaching a peak of 15 per cent under John Major's Tory Government in 1992, a month after I'd taken out my first mortgage.

What I do remember is Oliver Letwin's promise to slash billions of pounds from public services on the eve of the 2001 General Election to provide tax cuts for the rich.

What I do remember is that Michael Howard was a prominent member of the Tory governments that inflicted economic chaos upon our country.

A return of Michael Howard's Tory government would mean an end to our current economic prosperity

And a return to the failed and discredited policies of the Thatcher and Major era.

N HEAVENS

Lydiard Tregoz

Swindon

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