I REFER to Margaret Taylor's letter in the Gazette on October 12.

No doubt the electorate in general, regardless of their political allegiance or colour, are fed up with such comments penned by the Devizes Labour councillor Margaret Taylor in last week's letters page.

It's called "Yah-Boo" politics; we can do better than the previous administration.

No doubt with hindsight we would all avoid the pitfalls in life, including that of governments and their policies.

If only we say, we had foreseen the outcome of our actions.

According to Margaret Taylor however it would appear that the current administration are faultless in that respect; they have no skeletons in their cupboard, and even if they had it would have been the fault of previous Conservative administrations and their mismanagement of the nations affairs in the past.

Perhaps I should remind her of the Labour Government under the stewardship of Jim Callaghan and the winter of discontent and what disaster the outcome was for the nation.

Currently we have £700 million or so of public money going down the drain to prop up an already bankrupt Millennium Dome.

There must be higher priorities in the pipeline than waste so much money on such a disastrous project.

Hospitals need more money and most certainly the elderly living solely on the state pension need help.

In that regard we must not forget the infamous 75 pence increase in the old age pension in this financial year.

The Prime Minister may well now admit to a Government error in that regard, but if the public, together with the trade unions, had not put pressure on the Government it is doubtful that the Government would have changed its' attitude toward the pensioner.

I should of course mention also the fuel tax and the quite extortionate tax take by this Government, a tax way, way above that of countries within the EU and, in particular the USA where the Government tax take on fuel is approximately 40p per litre compared to approximately 85p per litre in the UK.

There are, of course, many pressures associated with governing the country and policies can indeed, in the long term, become disastrous to any administration, for no Government, or indeed politician for that matter, is infallible, over what may happen during its term of office.

But Margaret Taylor appears to infer, that the Labour Government are whiter than white what hypocrisy.

K R MANNS

Potterne