Labour partiality
Sir: In urging that it is 'Time to turn to Labour', A. N. Wilson (11 March) suggests that deterioration in Britain's public ser- vices, from the railways to the NHS, is a phenomenon which originated in 1979. An impartial observer with an historical pers- pective deeper than a decade will know this to be nonsense. Public services in Britain have steadily deteriorated under a succes- sion of 'semi-socialist' governments since 1945.
It is true that we, in common with other countries ravaged by years of socialism, have as yet found no certain cure. But to suggest that we should again embrace a
system which, wherever it has been tried, has led to suffocating bureaucracy and decay, is akin to offering more 'gear' to an addict in the agonies of withdrawal. Max Gammon
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