IN answer to N Winter, I suggest that he should heed his own advice to check his facts and figures before committing them to paper (You Say, Wednesday, October 20).
In my letter headlined "Reaping the Tories' harvest," I did not say the Tories were in power for 20 years. I said that 20 years on, Britain is now reaping the harvest of those 1980s Tory policies - note the subtlety!
Getting rid of Britain's own industrial base and replacing it with so-called "inward investment," was not an astute Tory policy. The problems being experienced by Cosworth and Jaguar are prime examples of that folly.
Virtuous
If N Winter insists that this type of "inward investment" was somehow a virtuous Tory policy, perhaps he should go and tell it to those Cosworth and Jaguar workers, who will be made jobless by Christmas.
The letter then claimed that while other countries protect their own industries, this country does not even provide a level playing field. One can hardly blame the prosperous and caring EU for our own folly - France, Italy and Germany seems to have the good sense to hang on to some of their own prestigious industries.
As for the next world power, I do not mind if it will be Europe, India or China - as long as that second world power will keep America in check.
L SPITERI,
Worcester.
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