THINGS must be getting desperate if the Tories are bringing out their old cabinet war horses.

First, former Prime Minister John Major was wheeled out to tell television interviewers the British economy may have passed its “darkest moment”.

Now, 80-year-old Tory veteran Lord Young has come out of the woodwork to defend the Government’s running of the country and to tell recession-hit Brits to “get up and get on with it”.

Lord Young, who was once a member of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet, was forced to resign two years ago as David Cameron’s enterprise tsar after claiming people “had never had it so good”.

What he meant to say is the rich and privileged have never had it so good.

If Lord Young of Graffham lowered his drawbridge once in a while he would realise Britain is knee-deep in recession.

Living standards have plummeted so low it’s like being back in Victorian times (which is about the same period in history Lord Young last ventured out of his ivory tower).

Food banks, fuel poverty and soaring unemployment are ingredients you would not expect to find in an oil-rich country such as ours.

Stephen Dixon, Redcar