I LOVED the letter from our local conservative councillor, Francis Lankester headlines "Tories should undergo a unions-style reform" (Letters, Saturday, June 25). That the Conservative "Metropolitan elite" has now deprived the diminishing grey army of Conservative stamp lickers, envelope addressers, and doorknockers, from a one-member-one-vote-say, in the election of the next Conservative Leader, is an absolute delight.

If Councillor Lankester is upset about being deprived of democracy, he may have some understanding of how we the people feel, at being governed by a government four out of five of us didn't want.

Isn't the world's greatest political chameleon ranting about Africa, preaching and waxing lyrical about his dedication to Europe, and winging his way all over the globe to highlight his new "presidency?"

What democratic right does he have to do that, when the vast majority of us didn't vote for him as Prime Minister, didn't vote for the Labour Party to govern us, and didn't vote for Mr Blair as any sort of "president?

Didn't MP Peter Luff say: "The new government may have a majority in Parliament, but it certainly doesn't have a mandate from the people ...Labour will govern with the consent of only a little over a fifth of the electorate."

What have the Conservatives done about that? Isn't the answer nothing? Isn't Councillor Lankester only pointing to one rotten bit of woodwork, when in reality, our nation's politics is rotten to the core?

N TAYLOR,

Worcester.