Dean Martin and Eric South (Opinion, March 24) reveal the true divisions in our society today.

The kind of Britain they would prefer is one where government taxes less, delivers less and could not care less.

Without investment in government schemes to tackle them, crime and unemployment would rise again and the economy would slip back into boom and bust with nothing to shelter the majority from recession.

We have only just begun to see a halt to the damage done by 18 years of that kind of government and now, after four years, we have the foundations of a better society, where fewer claim the dole, schools and the NHS are getting the cash they need and pensioners and low-paid families have a decent weekly income.

There should be no going back to the me-first, survival-of-the-fittest Tory Britain.

-Warren Morgan, Maresfield Road, Brighton