I WOULD like agree with Gordon Bennetti and disagree with Howard Price in his letter in the SNJ August 16.

Howard claims he just wanted to understand why 29,000 people in Stroud voted Tory but is he prepared to listen.

He claims he is not a Labour party activist but seems to be very vocal in his local community on all matters Labour, as anyone who Googles him will realise.

I would imagine that if he did write to Neil Carmichael on a number of occasions with his usual anti-Tory rhetoric he did not leave any opportunity for Neil to either answer or reason with him.

I can tell him exactly why, along with a large proportion of the readers of this great local paper, I voted Tory.

I was a first time voter in 1974 and as a student was persuaded to vote socialist but then I grew up, travelled the world and experienced life in other countries including a number of failed socialist states, I came to realise that socialism never works and nearly always ends in a failed economy, child poverty and very poor life expectancy.

The Conservative Party stands for free enterprise, self reliance, personal responsibility, home ownership, education and a good health care.

It is fashionable for the left wing to trash the NHS under the Conservative Party but the facts say different, there are more doctors, more nurses and more patients being treated than at any time.

Unemployment is at its lowest since 1971, investment in the UK is at an all time high and with the increase in the tax threshold and the increase in the level of the minimum wage ordinary people like me are better off.

As with Corbyn’s great socialist hero, the late Comrade Chavez of Venezuela, at the next election Corbyn will promise to the young people of this country everything they desire without the means to pay for it (like refunding the tuition fees) and then as in the past when we run out of money, we will kick them out and they will have to hand power back to the Tories to clear up their mess.

One of the saddest lessons of history is that if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth.

The truth is that the New Old Labour is now the nasty party led by privileged people that pretend to be just like us.

Just look at Jeremy’s (man of the people) privileged background and reveal the lie.

ALMA GEDDIN
Rodborough