Tories turning a blind eye

Far from having "an obsession with classic right-wing Conservative issues" such as immigration, asylum, Europe, crime and tax, the Tory Party refuses, in its upper echelon, to recognise the burning importance of these issues to the British people, and that is why its traditional supporters from all classes are leaving the party in waves.

The Conservative Party has been bewitched and suborned by the ideological infiltration over decades of left-wing liberal activists who have rendered it now indistinguishable from the Liberal Democrats and new Labour.

Sooner than later, there will be a formal coalescence of these three parties, and the leadership contest will be between a blue protagonist like Sir Malcolm Rifkind and a pink equivalent like Gordon Brown, "both nurtured on the self-same hill".

As the crises of British identity, overpopulation, Brussels hegemony, criminal and social chaos and real economic validity deepen, there will appear a radical, national alternative, and the cause of its existence will be the inability of so-called Conservative politicians today, like Sir Malcolm Rifkind, to measure their party up to the needs of their time.

ALASTAIR HARPER

Lathalmond

by Dunfermline

I read with interest Sir Malcolm Rifkind's latest swipe at the "deeply defective" Conservative Party. It is incredible to think that after eight years of infighting and three successive election defeats that not one of these "intellectual politicians" has worked out that a major contribution to their poor performance in the polls has been their preoccupation with back stabbing and disunity.

Perhaps, come the autumn, a new leader may emerge with the ability and charisma to focus the party on winning an election rather than on scoring points over colleagues?

JULIA DAVIDSON

Portland Row

Edinburgh