""I don't think that this was an occasion of a Labour Party untruth, even if the truth was told in a way calculated to cause alarm.""

Now even you are doing it.

Without a shred of evidence, you put on your prediction persona, and make a statement designed to alarm and mislead by intimating that Cameron may do this, that, and the other.

Twist it how you like, such a statement is a lie, and were you selling a product, you would be liable, under current legislation, to legal sanction. Or did you perhaps learn the technique while selling fire alarms to pensioners?

A party Manifesto is not intended to be a complete and definitive description of the whole of the next five years' actions, but a general outline of the salient features of proposed policy.

What you are selling is a lame duck, and if you can point to things Cameron did not include in his party's Manifesto, and claim that to be indicative of intent, then you are not a very good lawyer.

I would suggest that I could find at least as many items not included in New Labour's Manifesto, and make the same dumb claims, but I've got more sense.

In any case, I don't need to predict some nebulous future possibilities. I can point to thirteen years of his abysmal record, his dishonesty, and his ineptitude, and judging by the polls, I'm not the only one that sees it.

I'm not interested in any more of your inane attempts to make everyone conform to your opinion.

I ask nobody to vote for any particular party. You please yourselves.

I vote as I wish and I simply don't give a toss whether anyone likes it or not.

I choose my path, not you....LIVE WITH IT!

It's called freedom of choice, and I'm surprised at the number on this forum who only believe in it when it applies to themselves.

You and I, Richard, will always be poles apart politically and I see no way to remedy that. It has never made any difference to the fact that we are good friends, and I want that situation to continue.

I shall take no further part in any political thread in which you are involved.

We agree to disagree, and leave it at that, Yes?

Don T.