I WISH to respond to JH Lally’s naive statement in his letter in the Journal that the manufacturing base of the north of England was dismantled under the Conservatives.

The very same agenda would have been executed under Labour if that party had been in power at the time.

It was Labour that took us to war in Iraq, it was Labour that made the UK a borderless colony open to unchecked terminal mass Third World immigration.

And the Conservatives have perpetuated it since.

The Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties are just different masks on the same face, each with the same agenda.

If voters understood this we could make progress.

D Newman

Stour Road

Tyldesley