"You are an intelligent man, Don - but how can you not see? Boris is there to make his ilk rich, and yours poor. At the end of the day, that is why the petrol emotion is justified. You have seen the dispossessed. How can you empower the dispossessors?"

I am one of the people who suffer most from the benevolent ministrations of your so called party of the common people.

The same party which has consistently greeted every problem by trying to price it out of existence. It is Gordon Bloody Brown who has been responsible for almost all the problems I am having just to survive.

His removal of the 10p tax band has had a minimal effect on those who earn £15000 - £40000. It has improved the lot of those earning £40000 +.
So who foots the bill? GUESS!

Anyone whose pay doesn't top the 10p band limit, has had his tax DOUBLED, at a stroke, and some who get slightly more, have still suffered a loss of earnings.

You are an intelligent man Richard! Tell me how bashing the lowest paid in the country over and over again is not equivalent to what you claim is Boris Johnson's agenda.

I can only afford holidays if I use a caravan, for which I need a fairly large car. Now I face prohibitive road tax, as well as £5.00 per gallon fuel.

You don't always need bricks to build a wall, as you well know Richard, having built a pretty sturdy one between yourself and the truth, and I haven't read the Standard, or any other "News" paper for at least 30 years. I glean most of my information from the BBC, which, despite its leftist leanings is usually reasonably accurate factually.

You are a man who probably pays more in income tax than I receive in total income, so don't presume to lecture me on the hardships of life. You are watching them from afar. I am living them, and it wasn't the Tories who emptied MY pockets, it was your favourite comedy duo Blair & Brown, and believe me, I'm not bloody laughing.

And I know plenty more like me who feel the same, so don't hold your breath for the win at the next election.

Even the solace of a pint or two has been made a little more difficult, by a chancellor too stupid to realise that most binge drinking takes place at the night clubs this government now allows to stay open all night, and not in local pubs.

Binge drinkers have the money to absorb his price rise. They ccouldn't afford to binge otherwise.

So once again the poorest, the low paid, and pensioners get shafted so the idiots at Westminster can pretend to be doing something about the problem.

The old labour party was just barely credible as giving a damn about the working man and social justice.

New Labour isn't credible, period!!!

Don T.