I have read Roy Hilliard’s frequent contributions to your pages with puzzlement and sometimes confusion over many years. His latest offering defies rational analysis (January 18).

Starting with an accolade for Southern Railway and the claim it is “very efficient” it next turns into an attack on the LibDem’s – to me, something completely unconnected.

Roy tells us, “They are not suitable to share power in Parliament,” which then summarises with hoping the Conservatives resume complete power in 2015.

British Rail was privatised by the Conservative government under John Major into various operating units.

Moreover, to draw from your few good experiences to assert that Southern Railway is “very efficient” is flawed; I was delayed for four hours at Victoria after a signal failure at London Bridge just before Christmas. Does this make it very efficient? Is your comment off the rails?

We are told, as if by magic, that the way looks good for the Conservatives to resume power in 2015. Hmmmmm.

The Conservatives have power Roy; they are merely being reigned-in from following the ultra-right wing policies they wish to pursue by having to co-operate with the Lib Dem’s to gain their political support.

Little the existing Conservatives have done in Government justifies more of the same, but the electorate will deliver their opinion in due course, no doubt.

If I were a sitting Tory MP in Brighton or Hove, I would reckon a P45 to be a “very efficient” outcome from the democratic process.

Keith WD Jago, Uplands Road, Brighton