SIR – I find it bewildering to witness ordinary working British citizens be deceived by Tory propaganda in the national media.

I’d rather people admit that they don’t understand politics and have no political compass when it comes to who benefits who amongst the political parties. For any working/lower middle class voters who vote Conservative, it is very much like ‘the turkey that votes for Christmas’.

During the three decades that followed the second World war, (the golden age of social democracy) past Conservative PMs were far more moderate than we experience now. Working standards and pay improved during Harold Macmillan’s ‘never had it so good’ premiership and others of that era also were more moderate. Despite them coming from Etonian backgrounds, they weren’t extreme.

Ever since the late 70s/early 80s and the advent of Neo-Liberal Corporate capitalism being made to become the political norm on both sides of the Atlantic, the Conservative party is now completely different to what it was and people need to remember that their brand of capitalism now is representing ever less of the population and shifting us from democracy to plutocracy fast.

George Hitchcock, Southlands, Baildon