Arch Tory, and Brextremist Spencer Carvil believes that the Labour Party is responsible for the woes of this country.

Yet, everything that is happening in this country, right now, is down to the policies of Margaret Thatcher/John Major/David Cameron and Theresa May.

In the first instance, Mr Carvil, you wanted out of the European Union due to, in some part, the amount of money we give them.

But this is down to two people: Margaret Thatcher, who raised VAT from 9.5 per cent to 17.5 per cent upon election in 1979, and David Cameron, who subsequently raised it to its current level of 20 per cent when he wasn’t elected to power in 2010.

So, you voted our money away sir, and now you bleat about a situation of your chosen leader’s making.

How strange!

Next is the fact that, in the Eighties Thatcher deregulated the banking and credit sectors.

Now, Mr Carvil reckons that Thatcher sold off council housing stock because of the poor state of the buildings. But, those recently deregulated banks needed an emerging market to lend money to.

Right to buy gave them all the credit fodder they needed, to wreck the social housing structure in this country, possibly for ever.

So, that was a lie then.

And why does Mr Carvil still harp on about multiple occupancy houses, in Moulsecoomb? After all, 40 per cent of right to buy properties, which he voted for, are now owned by private landlords who rent them out to students.

And why shouldn’t they?

After all, business is business, and profiteering is its aim, that’s how capitalism works.

In effect, Mr Carvil, your plight is caused by market forces, and the council have no power to do anything about it.

But that’s Thatchernomics for you.

Then there is the banking crisis, in 2008. This, Mr Carvil, was caused by the (then) chief executive.

of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Fred Goodwin, making an almost unilateral decision to buy the Dutch bank AIG.

Within this bank, however, was the ticking time bomb of toxic debt.

So, when that bomb exploded, Gordon Brown was faced with two choices. Either bail the banks out, or let them go under and ruin the lives of their millions of customers.

Now, if I were the chancellor back then, I would have chosen the latter option, and blamed it on the fact that Thatcher was the root cause of this catastrophe, as it was she who cut the banks loose in the first place.

I wonder what Spencer Carvil would have done given those facts?

And what about September 16 1992, or Black Wednesday as it’s more commonly known. The Tories managed to lift interest rates from ten per cent to 15 per cent in the space of a few hours, plunging the country into recession.

Indeed, many building workers used their rights of freedom of movement, within the European Union to get jobs in Germany.

Then, when things started to recover, around 1994/5, those workers returned, and close behind came the first wave of immigrant workers.

So, even that problem was caused by the Tories, and not, as Nell Kelly likes to claim, Labour.

So, Mr Carvil, the biggest cause of you troubles appears right in front of you every time you look in the mirror, and is not the fault of the Labour Party.

Kenny Lloyd
Norway Street
Portslade