Letters to the Editor | 20 October 2007

Promises, promises

Sir: Fraser Nelson (Politics, 6 October) suggests that the approach that won David Cameron the leadership in 2005 was conveyed in messages like ‘social responsibility’ and ‘general wellbeing’. I, and I believe many others, decided to vote for Mr Cameron after he promised to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP/ED Group in the European Parliament.

A new Tory strategy based on specific promises will only be successful if there is a genuine commitment to carry these out.

Richard Soper
New Zealand
Lib Dems and the EU

Sir: We read that again the Liberal Democrats are blaming their leader for their fall in popularity in the polls. Does it not occur to them that it is their policies which are unpopular rather than their leader?

Those of us who greatly admire the Liberal Democrat stand on civil liberties and unfair taxes such as Council tax, which is not based on the ability to pay, cannot reconcile this with their desire to subsume our country ever deeper into the EU.