Lack of role models with moral principles

until the water problem is solved? Steve Whiteley North Tawton, Devon

I WELL remember that after the Second World War, some UK adults were so inspired by the sacrifice of so many that they resolved to ‘create a better world’, while Conservative voters were determined to return to the same unjust, class-dominated society of pre-war, and so hated every proposed improvement, such as the NHS.

The fundamental driving forces were the intangible beliefs and principles within sincere minds, in conflict with entrenched Conservative greed for profit from every enterprise and institution. The abstract concept of ‘social justice’ has never had any meaning to the Tory politician, so he feels free to lie about it. Why not?

From the NHS’s inception, shareholders had to have their cut, and since then successive Tory Governments have privatised agencies and many sections, and dentists and opticians have deserted the original ideal to suit their bank balances.

Even surgeons, the pinnacle of medical skill, whose achievement was to give life again to many, chose to sell exactly that same skill, in the same theatre, to the paying customer for a bonus.

This is not just proof of Tory obsession for money, the limit of their thinking, but a changed culture, which creates the social beliefs within which the minds of our children must now develop.

Just as citizens who vote Tory have never understood what moral principles are, in any generation, so now it is almost impossible for any child to find them.

It is still possible to tell boys to respect women, in the hope that they will obey. But boys who grew up, conscious of the sacrifice and principles of better men, were determined to live by the highest standards which inspired them, such as chivalry.

CN Westerman Brynna, South Wales