DOES Brian Hunt know what he is talking about?

For his information "spin" and "control freakery" did not start with Tony Blair.

All politicians of all parties in all countries use "spin" and endeavour to "control".

That is their stock-in-trade. This has gone on for as long as there have been parliaments and elections.

However, "control freakery" is an entirely different thing to rigging elections either by stuffing ballot boxes with false votes or else making sure that votes cast in good faith do not count. The latter appears to have happened in the USA in last year's presidential election.

Mr Hunt has still not clarified his attitude to postal voting. If he does not consider that there should be such votes, let him say so.

It is nothing to do with Mr Hunt whether I have been out of the country. I would like to go to Europe but my health rules out such things.

D E MARGRETT,

Worcester.