A vote for the future; Mailbag.

THE death of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, the last veterans of the Great War, marks the transition of World War One from living memory to the annals of history, but we live on and there lies the crux of the matter - trust. World War One was dubbed the war to end wars. The phrase coined not by the military, but by politicians of the Liberal and Conservative parties as a propaganda stunt to entice the vulnerable working class to go fight the war that they had created. When that failed, they conscripted even the unfit, even shooting the timid for cowardice.

The armistice of 1918 brought a treaty in 1919 signed by our Liberal/Conservative leaders at the time, the treaty made certain of World War Two 20 years later.

Since that time we have had the defunct Labour party and its dysfunctional brainchild in the form of New Labour to put up with and its unwinnable wars.

The electorate at the forthcoming General Election are left with a serious dilemma of keeping the present failed and warring euromanic New Labour or replacing it with either the anything but conservative euromanic Conservatives or the euromanic, undemocratic Liberals. There seems to be no option in the foreseeable future unless the electorate take their future and their children's children's future more seriously and start thinking for themselves and realise their say in all things is just one vote every five years.

United we stand, divided we fall.

LEN SANDFORD Lepton