AFTER so many years of Labour misrule, how can anyone think of voting for this party? It is not the party my father knew. Is it the working man's government? I think not. It is a party run by a Premier with no conscience. It is ruled by declaration from the top.

Take the latest update of the EU Parliament. It is being done behind your back and therefore you do know or understand what it covers. And what is more you will not get the democratic right to challenge it because the Prime Minister does not want you to know or understand what he is committing you to.

Take the latest fiasco of recycling. You can be fined for making the most trivial mistake with your bins whether or not it be not putting them out or accidentally mixing your rubbish.

All this comes from Europe from a body that you never elected. How many other items does one think of, from interference with your human rights but allowing the rights of transgressors to be considered?

As for the war in Iraq - what underhand conniving is coming to light as the media now insist it was an illegal war, and did you get a say in the decision?

History shows that the Iraqi people were a very unstable nation and that Saddam Hussein knew he had to rule with an iron fist. In doing so he made many enemies with his cruelty, which was his undoing.

Just think when you vote - why are the better paid so well off after the last budget - and the lower income worse off?

Is this the old Labour party you know and loved or a bunch freeloaders? I know where my cross will go, do you?

ALAN BLANDFORD, Southampton.