In reply to Bill Yates (Oxford Mail, June 4), he is either a Labour hack or suffering amnesia. Anyone who backs Labour after living through the Winter of Discontent is an even bigger fool than I am.

What are the things that Labour has done for us? We have schools that don't educate, 'political correctness', criminals treated better than pensioners, feral teenagers, a war based on lying - the reader can continue the list for himself.

What Britain needs now is a new Lady Thatcher.

RALPH LEAVIS Jourdain Road Blackbird Leys Oxford