IF it doesn't need mending - don't fix it! Good advice of old.

This country has done so much unnecessary fixing, in recent years, nothing works like it did anymore.

I have been trying to think of something, anything that does but to no avail.

Privatisation, Railways, Electricity, Gas, Water all now owned, in a confusing way by a mish-mash of different company's, many foreign.

British Telecom, not the same since privatised. Directory Enquiries.. in a mess.

Council Services, Call Services.. and the waiting and Mozart.

Multiplicity of television channels - none of them entertaining.

And now it is the turn of the National Health Service and Foundationing.

Have I missed something? Supermarkets perhaps.

Oh, yes, I nearly forgot, the new Labour Government and Blair.

None of these fixes have really improved our lives, have they? Just frustrated them.

D J WATHEN, Alcester Road, Rushford, Salford Priors.