PEOPLE over 50 appear to be discriminated against in many ways. Our ethics and values of family life are derided - for example, this government encourages young single girls to have babies and then pay them a lot of money rather than advocate marriage and a stable family life as the norm.

Political correctness reigns supreme. The younger generation considers Jesus Christ merely the superstar of a musical production because morning prayers in schools were stopped, consequently congregations in churches consist mainly of grey-haired worshippers.

Immediately upon leaving school, the young are given money from the government - we weren't so lucky! Our parents kept us until we got a job.

From 1948, we paid a third of our wages to the government to keep us 'from the cradle to the grave".

Yet means testing is now the norm and old people's homes, village schools, post offices, bus services and village shops are being closed at an alarming rate. This same Labour Party, which introduced the National Health Service, is paying pensioners a pittance while grinding us into the ground with stealth taxes.

Democracy means that grey voters do have the power. We can remove officers from both local and national government - and by starting from the very top we can rid the country of all the greedy, arrogant, corrupt, sleaze-ridden, lying, control freaks whose presence is demeaning this great nation of ours.

J ALEXANDER,

Symonds Yat West.

Herefordshire.