WHILE M A Clark may advocate a return to pre-Blair democracy, the fact remains that our politicians no longer serve us.

Isn't that why fewer and fewer of us are exercising our right to vote?

Look how corrupt our elections have become. In 2001, Labour polled just 10,740,168 votes - 14,357,152 voted against Labour, while another 17,862,562 electors chose not to vote, in our now corrupt elections.

Labour gained almost twice as many seats in Parliament as all the other parties combined in spite of the fact that only a quarter of the electorate voted for them.

That those who are supposed to represent us are silent on such a diabolical misrepresentation of democratic principles, speaks eloquently of the way our democracy is now perverted by the political parties in pursuit of absolute power.

Look at just three of the issues confronting our nation today. On Europe, the politicians are determined to make us part of their Brussels dictatorship.

Determined

We, the people, do not want closer ties with Europe, and the majority of us would probably vote to leave Europe entirely, given the chance.

The politicians are determined to replace our currency with the euro, yet the majority of us do not want it. Regarding immigration, the politicians want another six million people to come here, to sustain growth.

We, the people, are beginning to say our country is too overcrowded already, and Throckmorton may prove to be the straw that broke this camel's back.

It seems to me that those who should be speaking for us have blindfolded and gagged the Mother of all Parliaments and are determined to destroy our nation forever, by surrendering it to Brussels.

Is it any wonder that so many of us now view politics, and those who practise it, with disgust?

N TAYLOR, Worcester.