Sir - It is a new era in politics, but who to vote for ?

Nationalism shows the Welsh and Scots asserting themselves so eloquently.

This country could so easily end up as three politically separate nations or even out of the EU altogether. The debate about immigration (doesn't 'migration' sound much more benign) is centre stage for many sobre thinking people and not only the far right.

Perhaps less obviously democracy itself is walking a tightrope. The last two Prime Ministers were not elected and the losers in 2010 shared in government and without proper mandate bringing us the austerity that is so counter productive and hit the poorest hardest.

Something similar is likely to happen again after this ebay auction of a long campaign.

But the truth is this is a nation in decline and in many ways the election simply decides who gets to sit at the top table and plead the usual crafted cliches to appeal to our hopes and feed our prejudices while they serve time before eventually writing their memoirs and enjoy the ministerial pension.

We will probably never again be a great exporting nation. We do not 'rule the sea's' There is no empire and we have downgraded our military.

Many young people have have so little to look forward to. The internet is blamed for breaches of privacy, the flourishing of pornography, grooming of potential terrorists and teenage bullying.

If what we are told is true we are a unfit nation destined to all manner of ailments and premature death and we are not 'paying our way' as a country.

Where is the prospectus and personalities to make a real change?

Andrew Brown

71 Grenville Road, Worcester