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Letter from Steve Halden

11:51am Thursday 18th March 2010

NEW Labour's economic plan for Britain was flawed from the very start. The main tenet of New Labour's plan was massive spending on public services, believing that this would cure all Britain's problems.

Letter from Terry Reynolds

12:06pm Thursday 18th March 2010

I THINK THIS IS AIMED AT OUR LOCAL LABOUR LEADER??? JANIE IN response to the Labour Manifesto, can I ask the following to the party leader?

Letter from William the Earl of Dartmouth

11:48am Thursday 18th March 2010

AT election time the Liberal Democrats profess liberal values but, revealingly, when in the European Union they betray liberal values .

Letter from Hannah David

11:00am Thursday 18th March 2010

SINCE the beginning of this year, representatives of UKIP have been writing letters in to the Swindon Advertiser trying to elaborate on what they currently think of Britain and how they think Britain should do better in the future.

Letter from Alan Fletcher

11:04am Thursday 18th March 2010

SWINDON Guide Dogs would like to say a big thank you to all the generous people who donated to their collection at ASDA Walmart on March 6 when a fantastic £772 was raised. This amount will enable ASDA Walmart to name a puppy in our Name A Puppy scheme and all future monies raised at ASDA Walmart will go towards their fourth puppy.

Letter from Greg Dunningham

11:08am Thursday 18th March 2010

TO the many bikers who made their way to Wootton Bassett and who have raised more than £100,000 in honour of the Afghan heroes - thank you for showing what compassion really means today. And to the moaning minnies and wailing what-fors - how much have you given towards people who have given so much? Whingeing is so easy as it does not cost anything. Well, shame on you, all of you, who bewail the loss of loved ones and the injured whose lives are ruined. I wonder if you would feel quite so self righteous if you had to repeat the drivel you come out with at the funeral of a young soldier or if you had to meet an injured soldier face to face or even say, to his parents.

Letter from Robert Feal-Martinez

11:12am Thursday 18th March 2010

CAN there now be any further doubt about the joke that was the 'British jobs for British workers' comment by Gordon Brown when it was revealed by the Mail on Sunday that the biggest cooked meat supplier to ASDA has been advertising for Polish speaking staff only.

Letter from Robert Feal-Martinez

10:56am Thursday 18th March 2010

WHILE it is nice to see the General Medical Council (GMC) following UKIP's lead on calling for a proper inspection and vetting policy for EU doctors, what is needed is the Government to seek a change to the EU directive that allows little or no vetting of the competence or otherwise of EU trained doctors.

Letter from Dr David Hill

10:43am Thursday 18th March 2010

RECENTLY I was in the audience of a CameronDirect question time session at Holmfirth, Huddersfield. My conclusion after listening to David Cameron for over an hour was that he has finely tuned these sessions and there was definitely a suspicion that many of the questioners had been pre-selected. I cannot state for definite but this unnerving fact came over to me personally. Therefore these sessions are, in my mind, a not-rock-the-boat situation and no more. Indeed, although as usual with all politicians there was a great deal of rhetoric and aspirations, no applied mechanisms to achieve these goals was forthcoming from Mr Cameron.

Letter from Kelly Slade

10:51am Thursday 18th March 2010

ANIMAL AID - the UK’s largest organisation campaigning on behalf of animals - is looking for young, creative and imaginative people to enter its second nationwide youth art and poetry competition. The competition is open to anyone between the ages of 11 and 18 years, all they have to do is create some artwork or write a poem on the theme of factory farming - a subject that regularly appears in the national media.

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