Fairer for all

Merely “managing capitalism”

is not the spur that gets us knocking on doors in the cold and has us keeping the faith when times are tough. We do so because we believe Labour is still the last, best hope of changing society for the better, and entrenching and defining those timeless principles of tolerance, solidarity, equality and respect.

I’m in the Labour Party not because of a blind faith in the goodness of human nature, but because I believe as ordinary working people we need a vehicle of expression. Lofty ideals are well and good, but without a party willing to fight for them they go unrealised.

The Minimum Wage didn’t fall out of the sky; it took a Labour government to translate the ideal of a fair wage for our most vulnerable workers into an irreversible reality.

Unlike the Tories, our convictions demand we make the future fairer for all. I am proud to stand by Labour’s values and to fight to entrench those finer values for all.

Grahame Morris, Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Easington.

RE Gordon Brown’s “A future fair for all” message. So all the honest, law-abiding people who work hard are going to get the same value of handouts that the idle, non-working wasters get?

The honest person is going to get back all he has lost by being a victim of theft and the car owner who gets his car stolen and trashed is going to have his extra insurance costs paid for?

People who get their property broken into are going to have everything put right for them and the crooks and wrongdoers are going to be punished by giving back to the victims all their costs, goods and rights?

Fairer deal, Mr Brown? I think not. His slogan is the most stupid thing I have ever heard. I could go on about banks, MPs and many other matters that could be fairer, but what’s the point?

Malcolm Stubley, Barnard Castle, Co Durham.