Take off your rose tinted spectacles, Mr J D O’Connor (November 8.).

It does not matter how many letters you write to The Bolton News defending the Tory party, you can’t escape the facts that they left this country in a mess when they left office in 1997.

There is no way that you can say that this country is not in a far better state now than then.

The facts I wrote in my letter of October 25 are all true, so I don’t need to repeat them again.

No, Mr O’Connor, I do not need to take off my rose coloured spectacles and have a reality check.

I would suggest that you become more honest in claiming that you are a non-political person and take off your blue rose coloured spectacles and have a reality check.

Your berating of Thatcher and Blair does not fool me.

E Johnson, Latham Road, Blackrod