SIR: The news that Conservative MP Peter Thurnham has defected to the Liberal Democrats because of Tory sleaze, shows that the Tories are falling apart and unfit to govern the country.
The greed of many Tory MPs has forced Mr Thurnham to take drastic action and he is to be applauded for his courage. Mr Thurnham's defection straight after the Tory Party conference, shows that he could no longer stomach Tory sleaze and John Major's complete failure to punish his greedy MP's.
The Tories have clearly become a party of spivs and wide-boys. The Cash for Questions affair, Arms for Iraq, outside earnings and secret Tory party funding show John Major's party to be as crooked as a mountain road. In contrast, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are working together to set up a high powered inquiry into government sleaze, in a bid to restore the reputation of British politics.
The Tory Party must be stopped from turning Britain into a banana republic. If Mr Major will not take a grip of his party, then the electorate will do it for him by voting them out.
K Meagher
Campaigns Co-Ordinator
Bolton South-East Labour Party,
Hereford Crescent, Little Lever
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