Why I joined Labour Party
In your editorial "Tony's farewell is set to run and run", you complain that he has still not set a retirement date - and may last as PM till next summer. So what? Why do some people continue to vilify him?
As for the Tories straining at the leash to get to the next election, do they think the people will put them in power? Maybe, but I say whenever Tony does go Labour will still win the election. I cannot see why the electors will vote in the past, yesterday's men, the Tories.
I am 86 years old, and I remember the days between the wars. I recall the haves and the have-nots. I recall children undernourished, and queues at the Labour exchange, after our fathers had fought in 1914.
"The good old days" were bad old days for many. I left school age 14 and as for education - what chance had a working class kid got for further education when men were out of work?
I joined the Labour party, and in 1945 we got a Labour government and the NHS. Tories would destroy all we fought for. Tony has made us electable at last, and whoever becomes leader, we need Labour not Tory.
Harold Baker, Trident Drive, Oldbury.
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