Boris is the man to save us from a return to the 70s

The article by Boris Johnson last week reminded us how unions destroyed motor manufacturing in the 1970s, and how the fight to prevent Labour winning the Election is a ‘Battle for Britain’.

But the motor industry was only one sector to suffer at the hands of union leaders during the 1970s and early 1980s. Shipbuilding, docking and coalmining were others.

Young Labour voters should read more history, as there was nothing fair or progressive about the socialist experiment in the 1970s that resulted in the three-day week, mountains of rubbish in the streets, the dead left unburied and an IMF bailout.

Roy Daniels, Luton down the road. As for immigration, what was that? And house prices? Well, they were affordable, and once you had passed the interview with the buildingsociety manager, there was a mortgage available. And I am sure the weather was better as well. OK, some of the fashions might have been a bit so-so, but you can’t have everything.

Steven Broadbent, Colne, Lancashire or return to Labour and its crises in the education and immigration systems?

P. Burke,

Richmond-upon-Thames Boris is the man to save Britain. We don’t want another coalition – we want a Tory government, unfettered by the other lot, and Boris has the character to achieve this. Enough of the tail wagging the dog.

Brian Galpin, Poole, Dorset The cars that Boris Johnson saw at the port at Bristol that reminded him of Dinky toys might have been made in Britain, but are the companies that made them British-owned? Luckily, companies from Japan and elsewhere value the British workforce.

P. Jones, Lowestoft What we need in this General Election is a government that prioritises getting the national debt down to reduce our massive interest payments, so that funds can be made available for the things that are needed, such as the NHS and education.

Name and address supplied The old saying goes that Labour spends and the Tories mend, and the Labour record speaks for itself. At the end of their last tenure, Ministers admitted there was no money left at the Treasury.

We have a choice: do we stick with the Tories to continue with the first-class job of keeping the country as a world leader, Boris Johnson says Labour would take the country back to the 1970s. I could ask: What is wrong with that? There was full employment – if you left one job there was another at the next factory