RE your Comment column, “New year, old politics”

(Echo, Jan 4), which stated that in November 2005 you asked David Cameron – above: “Can an old Etonian understand Easington?”

He replied: “What matters is not where you are from, but are you a good listener, a fast learner, do you know what needs to be done? I don’t think it’s the background that matters, but where we are all going.”

It’s not where you live – that’s a bit rich coming from a man who has never had a real job. He is rich, and extremely privileged, and he has no concept of how people live in Easington.

His hero, Margaret Thatcher, said “there is no such thing as society or communities”. Her policies, which he admired, had a devastating effect on Easington, not least the closure of our pit in 1993.

So his party is going to wave a magic wand over Easington, create jobs, improve the infrastructure? I don’t think so.

Yes, Labour has got some things wrong, but the spectre of Mr Cameron and his rich cronies running this country does not bear thinking of.

AJ Cummings, Easington Colliery, Peterlee, Co Durham.