Labour’s core campaign message  -you can have everything you want and someone else will pay for it – no doubt has some appeal but even in this season of the year I’m afraid I don’t believe in Father Christmas.

The Communist Party has given up fighting elections in despair, so successfully has Jeremy Corbyn’s hard left Labour Party occupied their territory. Their pitch is not new.

Those of us who lived through the 1970s remember the nationalised industries –unproductive,  loss making , heavily unionised, on the side of the producers rather than the customers  and in the case of the car industry producing badly designed cars no one wanted to buy.  Can you imagine a nationalised railways run by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey  being keen to reduce costs to the taxpayer through innovation which might risk jobs.

Those who forget the 1970s risk re-living them. Please don’t send us back!

David Kenny (Tredunnock)