NEW LABOUR: I CANNOT believe it has taken Alan Milburn and Peter Mandelson all this time to realise that most people are fed up with Tony Blair.

New Labour is destroying Great Britain with pro-Europe views and the thousands of illegal immigrants costing the poor tax payers millions of pounds.

These men are all failed Cabinet ministers who have had a very good living out of New Labour. Now they are hoping people will forget and they want to get back on the gravy train.

They talk about fair shares for all. Can they remember voting themselves a 45 per cent increase in pensions, doubling their salaries plus expenses, plus a three-day week, plus extra holidays? Then they had the cheek to tell workers they will have to work till they are 70 or lose their pensions.

Mr Blair is the poodle of Europe, not the bulldog of England he should be.

If the Sign of the Cross killed Dracula, the flag of St George will defeat Mr Blair and his disaster of a Government, and quickly. - F Wealand, Darlington.

RECENTLY it has been widely reported that Peter Mandelson is to be appointed as the next British Commissioner to the European Union. This would be the worst possible appointment for Great Britain.

Not that Mr Mandelson is incapable of doing the job. He is, after all, a very accomplished politician. But he is a committed europhile and this would lead to a conflict of interests.

The role of the Commissioner is to protect and promote British interests and Mr Mandelson would not be able to do this because of his dedication to the European dream.

What we need is a commissioner who is a eurosceptic. Someone who would fight to protect British interests. Someone like Frank Field, the highly respected former Cabinet Minister. - E Wilson, Chairman, UK Independence Party, Hartlepool Branch.

GM FOODS

THE publication of the GM-Nation Survey showing a staggering 9-1 level of opposition to GM foods is, you might think, pretty conclusive.

It should send a message to the Government which is incapable of any misinterpretation.

Despite this conclusive evidence, which supports every other survey, large and small, this arrogant and increasingly dictatorial Government is determined that GM experimentation and even commercial plantings will be inflicted upon us.

The interests of big business will always take precedence over the settled will of the people: this appears now to be the established ethos of New Labour.

Take Lord Sainsbury, unelected, yet appointed as Minister of Science. He just happens to be Labour's single biggest donor and is heavily involved with promotion of GM companies. Also worthy of note is that David Hill, new spin doctor in chief, was until recently a consultant to Monsanto, the leading GM company.

Recently, the Welsh Assembly and seven other local councils in England voted to keep GM foods out of their areas of controls. Democracy in action you may think. Sadly, you would be wrong. These democratically accountable bodies have been told by Tony's masters in Brussels that such declarations are unlawful.

EU law now states: "No form of agriculture, conventional, organic or GM should be excluded from the EU."

This was emphasised recently by Franz Fischler, EU Food Commissioner, when he said: "It is not possible for regions or national governments to introduced GM-organism free zones." - George Springer, Hartlepool.

IRAQ

IT now appears that Iraq did not have any weapons of mass destruction, so therefore Dr David Kelly must have had a pretty cushy job, since it was his job to look for something that did not exist.

That should not have been too hard to do. Better than working for a living.

What is certain is that he could never find anything in Iraq if he was sitting in a hotel in London divulging confidential information to a journalist.

The question must be asked, did Dr Kelly ever have any clandestine meetings with persons other than BBC journalists?

Innocent people have been insulted for attempting to discover the mole among them, demands are being made for their resignations, while the informer is portrayed as a hero. - David Bryce, Peterlee.

CONCORDE

I SEE that tickets have gone on sale for Concorde's last week in the skies from October 18-24.

The price of a ticket is out of reach for most people.

I would like to think that the general public, who all paid for this great plane, should have the chance to get a flight that we can all afford. - CW Rickaby, Catterick Village.