LOOK at the history of the two political parties who have ruled our country for the past 30 years.

Conservatives sold everything of value to foreign interests, electricity, gas, water, railways, buses, telecoms, steel, etc, putting thousands of people out of work, destroying our industrial base.

Labour, no longer the people’s party, robbed the pension pots of workers and to add insult to injury removed the ten per cent tax band affecting the lower paid and pensioners on fixed incomes the most.

Democracy? How is it served by Gordon Brown ratifying what became the Lisbon Treaty without our promised referendum. David Cameron said we must have a say, but did nothing to make sure we did.

We are now being blackmailed into believing that we must give them a clear majority or the consequences will be dire. Dire for who? Them, of course.

Mr Cameron and his election posters say time for change – he got that right, but time for total change I say. What’s the worst that can happen?

Robert Jackson, Darlington.

HAVING lived in Scotland for five years, I love the place, but cannot understand why Alex Salmond and his Scottish National Party (SNP) felt they had the right to be represented in last night’s final live TV debate among the three main party leaders.

The population of the whole of Scotland is only five million, significantly less than that of London. Had the SNP been included in the debates, then surely other parties, such as the Welsh nationalists, Northern Ireland parties, Ukip, etc, should also have been represented.

Geoff Carr, Aycliffe Village, Co Durham.