SIR – ISN’T politics a wonderful place to be when you are not in power? The Lib/Dems are making fantastic claims of what they are going to do if they win next year’s election.

This is so easy to do when you know that you won’t have to honour these pledges because you will not win the election. I can make similar claims if my ‘pigs might fly’ party win next year’s election.

We will guarantee to double funding for the NHS and other emergency services. We will build many more prisons and lock up all criminals.

We will double the retirement pension and reduce the retirement age to free up jobs for all our young people, meaning no unemployment. Now, all we have to do is win the election.

Keith Rayner, Laburnum Drive, Baildon