WHAT a funny old game politics is. Wealthy donors influencing the Tory Party (Oxford Mail, April 2), the unfairness of the ‘granny’ and ‘pasty’ taxes in the Budget, as well as the artificial petrol shortage, all showed the incompetence of the coalition Government.

Then along comes the maverick George Galloway and takes Bradford West from Labour.

But the truth is the only party which can get rid of these out-of-touch Tories and Lib Dems is the Labour Party.

Votes for minor parties only strengthen the position of the Conservatives.

I hope that everyone will use their vote in the local elections on Thursday, May 3, to send a strong message to the Government.

In these tough times we expect fairness as well as tackling the deficit.

Helping the very rich at the expense of the rest of us is no way to run a country.

JOHN TANNER, City council executive member for a Cleaner, Greener Oxford, City councillor for Littlemore County councillor for Isis, Oxford