SIR - An expensive looking newsletter from the Conservatives lands on the doormat.
A huge article explains that John Prescott wants to compulsorily purchase and repossess private gardens and build "soulless, ugly blocks of flats" on them. This is illustrated with a photo of a JCB parked on the lawn of the suburban semi. There is no way that privately owned gardens could be "grabbed" in this way. This sly attempt to terrify homeowners, particularly the elderly, is a traditional Tory trick.
What I find to be most illuminating is that the tone of the article clearly objects to the building of affordable housing. Elsewhere in the newsletter, the Tories are boasting about "urban renaissance" and "redevelopment of Diglis", clear shorthand for luxury housing for the rich.
While the Tories claim that they fear the loss of green spaces in this "garden grab", it's interesting to note that a list of eight key issues on the back of the newsletter does not mention the environment at all.
New Tories - same old nonsense and scaremongering.
CHRIS WINWOOD, Worcester.
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