I was bemused by the Lib-Dem conference. Why attack the Tories, who appear to be a pale imitation of a political party, when the current lot are exhibiting unparalleled incompetence?

Has it escaped Charles Kennedy's notice that we have a government incapable of issuing passports or grading exams, which has littered the countryside with burnt cattle and now proposes to cover it with roads and airports and advocates a Middle East adventure more damaging than Suez?

These are the people who came in on a promise to reverse the divisions in society created by Thatcherism.

-Dave Sandell, Windlesham Road, Brighton