No one to turn to
From Mrs Joyce Mew Sir: The blue eyes of Mr Guinness would seein to be contemplating a world of fantasy not taking a cold hard look at realityEurope is not out of the way. And it is likely to keep cropping up more and more as the months go by. At the referendum a good third of the electorate did not vote. Of those who did, the "Yes" vote accounted for about 49 Per cent (still less than half-hearted) as against something over 20 per cent Polled by the "Antis." All three leaders of our major political parties endorsed continued membership of the EEC and the professional and practised party machines moved into action.
In effect a fifth of the electorate, a sizeable minority, is disfranchised. There is no party to whom they can turn
for representation, and democracy is thus endangered.
This is the more serious as, at the Present time, with widespread 'yearning for a more vigorous alternative to socialism,' there are several million Tories who will never vote Conservative
again. The years between June 1970 and January 1973 have seen to that. If it had not been for Mr Heath and his desire to failed, where Napoleon and Hitler 'ailed, the Conservative Party would now be well placed to attempt the restoration of those sound principles outlined by Disraeli which are still nominally the guide-lines of the party. As it is, there will be a long and tedious struggle. The Tories may succeed — or theY may not. After all, there are only a Few years before 1984.
Joyce Mew Chairman, British Housewives' League aroomhill Cottage, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells The faithful at Blackpool and the Tory Press may eulogise Mrs Thatcher's sPeech; millions of others of all parties and no party who hoped that at least rine party leader could give practical and constructive proposals as to how we can curb inflation and unemployment, grow more food and do something to stop the appalling extravagances in national and local government life will be bitterly disappointed. Moreover, many of Mrs Thatcher's statements were divisive and will do more to divide the country than unite it. Mrs Thatcher appears to have no realisation that Britain is having a battle for sheer survival. Can you imagine Churchill in the midst of the crisis of 1940 making such a speech to his own Party conference? There is now more consensus between the policies of the moderate Labour, moderate Tory and moderate Liberal than there is between Mrs Thatcher's policies and the majority of the British people.
Lastly, Britain's problems are now so serious that the can only be solved by a national government with wartime Powers or by dictatorship. In the interests of national survival we have just got to go on fighting for one or the other.
Noel A rmstrong
3 Eaton Road, Norwich
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