IN last month’s protest march against Government cuts there was talk of an ‘alternative’.
After 19 years of Tory power, 13 years of Labour and now more Tory control, aided and abetted by the LibDems, there does not seem to have been much difference of note.
On more careful observation, there is, indeed, not a great deal of difference between core Tory and Labour thinking.
The width of a cigarette paper would have difficulty in distinguishing between the two.
So in what mould is this alternative going to present itself?
At a local level, mindful of the fact that there are local elections coming up, our real masters in Brussels regulate many laws (about 75 per cent) affecting us in Britain. these affect the environment, local business, human rights, agriculture, fisheries and legal affairs.
The obvious conclusion is that our duly elected Government is quite powerless.
The real power is in Brussels. So should not signatures on petitions and protests be directly aimed at the bureaucrats in Brussels for better effect?
JOHN MADEN, Montagu Road, Botley, Oxford
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