IN THE wake of the general election results much is being made of the teenage vote and its sixth form claptrap echoing a dreamland Labour manifesto claiming it to be the solution to poverty and other social ills besetting society, but the thought of a trip down the John McDonald road to economic disaster leading to the promised land of Corbytopia makes the blood run cold.

Has the recent memory of 14 years of Labour rule terminating in a country near bankruptcy with their failed economic plans and foreign wars, been airbrushed out of history?

Having been there many years ago as a teenager I understand how easy it is to see the problems of the world in just black and white and if things were just that easy I and my generation would have solved them.

The sad truth is if you make money you can spend it, if you don’t you can only spend other peoples until it runs out, ask Gordon Brown and Tony Blair.

Talk of a fairer redistribution of wealth has been pedalled since time immemorial but the sad truth is human nature gets in the way.

Francis Ray

Stroud