As threatened, the first in a series of unpublished letters to The Guardian and The Independent. This was e-mailed to The Guardian on May 7th, just after the UK general election.
Dear Editor,
As your leader of 7/5/05 pointed out, only 22% of the electorate as a whole (including non-voters) supported Labour in the election. However, what proportion of the 22% were `holding their noses' as they voted Labour? Enthusiasts for Mr Blair's policies of further privatisation in health and education, assualts on civil liberties, and tailending US neoconservatives in foreign policy (to mention just a few examples) must be considerably below 20%. This is not a mandate for Mr Blair's particular form of extremism. He claimed yesterday that he had `listened and learned' from the electorate. But he also `took full responsibility' for the Iraq debacle - with no noticeable results whatsoever. I would bet all the tea in China that Mr Blair's listening and learning produces the same result. Only a reduced majority and the hope that MPs in general have listened and learned stand between us and a whole raft of legislation which is not supported by more than 80% of the electorate.
Yours faithfully,
Monsieur Grouchy
Why didn't the bastards publish it?
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