SIR - Recently Brian Holmans upbraided another reader for daring to question New Labour's record on a whole host of things but in particular the NHS.

He said new technology meant the need for fewer nurses and wards, etc. Is it also responsible for our record, the worst in Europe, of cases of MRSA?

Tony Blair is fortunate in having so many blinkered supporters such as him. Does he know better than the people inside the service who are fed up of being overstretched?

When will Mr Holmans wake up to the fact that this must be the worst government we have had?

When Blair took over inflation and interest rates were on the way down and the numbers of employed on the increase.

The cause of high interest rates was a consequence of Mrs Thatcher's Chancellor, John Major, with the full support of Labour, having supported our entry into the ERM.

Thankfully, the scapegoat, Norman Lamont, got us out and this started the reversal of our misfortune and from which Brown so benefited and continued the upward spiral, which is now going wrong again.

And still they aspire to adopting the euro, from which escape will be more difficult than from the ERM.

Philip Bird, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley