Letters | 3 October 2009

The task ahead

Sir: Am I alone in finding the Tories’ pre-election triumphalism nauseating (Finkelstein et al, 26 September)? When I last walked past my local constituency association, the grubby frontage still had the old logo. Tony Blair at least built a modern political party. David Cameron hasn’t even begun to build a dynamic political organisation. If I were still a Tory, my feeling would not be swaggering confidence but intense trepidation at the scale of the task ahead.

Brian Jenner
Bournemouth

Sir: David Selborne tells us that in 1997 Labour ‘gained office but lost its sense of direction’ (‘How can Labour save itself?’, 26 September). The Tories should learn from their example. The one nagging worry left with much of the electorate is that a Tory government will quickly revert to being the ‘nasty party’, blaming society’s ills on easy targets, and putting the interests of big business before those of ordinary people.