SIR,
Labour has ordered activists not to answer any questions on their record; meanwhile, Gordon Brown plans to borrow £3 million extra every week to pay for their increased spending. Interest charges on Labour's borrowing are already higher than spending on defence, and as we all know, interest charges produce nothing.
Peter Hain compares our economy to Rwanda; he may know something the government is keeping from the public. The cost of Labour is always bankruptcy.
Maybe, just once, someone from Labour can comment on Labour's failures:
• Council tax more than doubled since 1997.
• The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe.
• The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world.
• 8.4 million people on out-of -work benefits.
• Missing the target of halving child poverty, ending up with child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead.
• Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe.
• Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads.
• Seven million people without an NHS dentist.
• Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe.
• The 10p tax rate abolished.
• National Insurance increases after the election putting jobs at risk.
• The Golden Rule on borrowing abandoned when it didn't fit.
Brown would have us believe the problem is worldwide, but he does not tell that he was borrowing way above UK earnings from 2001, and by 2008 they were £90 billion in budget deficit each year (Official UK statistics).
Why should anyone accept that people who got us into such a mess are the people to get us out?
Roy Garner
(Chepstow)