WE have recently seen our new, party-elected Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, invite an ex-Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, a Conservative and a person he once wrote a book about in no uncertain terms, to tea at No10 Downing Street and, on her leaving, remarked that she was a person he much admired.

Surely that should have alerted Labour voters to the man's lack of principles.

Now another so-called Labour Party Government minister, Jack Straw, when questioned by Andrew Neil on TV, states that he also is a strong admirer of Margaret Thatcher, who it must be remembered did everything in her power when in government to destroy the Labour Party from the outside and now we have her ardent admirers doing it for her from the inside.

The anti-trade union laws she brought in while in power still stand after ten years of Labour rule and yet, still, trade union leaders queue up to bale the party out financially with workers' hard-earned money every time it gets into trouble.

As I see it, all the people who crave the power to control the people, either politically or through their work, are, in this country at any rate, morally bankrupt.

Peter Dolan, Newton Aycliffe, Co Durham.