Teletext Recovery - 30/12/2003

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:18:34           ——————————————————————————————  LETTERS TO TELETEXT Write On is your chance to comment on issues that matter to you and to have a say about stories making the headlines. Letters must be no more than 60 words and include your FULL NAME and ADDRESS. This also applies to e-mail letters. Letters without this information will not be considered for broadcast. Write to THE EDITOR, TELETEXT, PO BOX 32549, LONDON W4 5TX. Fax 0870 731 3085 e-mail: letters@teletext.co.uk ——————————————————————————————————1/11— Entertainment 140 News index 301 MORE OF YOUR LETTERS >>> Poll Index In Focus Regional

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:42:04           ————— LETTERS OF THE YEAR ————  TORIES: LET DRACULA SUCK LABOUR DRY Dear Teletext, According to his enemies, Michael Howard is a heartless, ruthless, calculating political machine, bent on passing himself off as something he isn't. Oh, and he's got "something of the night about him", too! Let's hope this Dracula creature can finally suck the lifeblood out of this appalling Labour government. I B, Portsmouth (8/11) ——————————————————————————————————2/11— News index 301 Politics 327 Letters must be no more than 60 words and must include name and address. This also applies to e-mail letters. Poll Index In Focus Regional

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:24:23           ————— LETTERS OF THE YEAR ————  TORIES: IS ANYWHERE TORY TERRITORY? Dear Teletext, Theresa May says that Brent East is "never going to be Conservative territory". But the constituency has road upon road of respectable semi- detached and terraced housing with good cars sitting outside. If the Tories are writing off this sort of territory then one wonders what is left for them. P W, Newbury, Berkshire (22/9) ——————————————————————————————————3/11— News index 301 Politics 327 Letters must be no more than 60 words and must include name and address. This also applies to e-mail letters. Poll Index In Focus Regional

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:21:42           ————— LETTERS OF THE YEAR ————  TORIES: WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? Dear Teletext, The Tory party has a death wish. They chopped down Margaret Thatcher and every one of her successors. Now they have voted us another five years of Labour government. How they expect anyone to vote for them again is beyond me. M S, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear (2/8) ——————————————————————————————————4/11— News index 301 Politics 327 Letters must be no more than 60 words and must include name and address. This also applies to e-mail letters. Poll Index In Focus Regional

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:25:04           ————— LETTERS OF THE YEAR ————  TORIES: IDS VOTE A MISTAKE Dear Teletext, What selfish, cowardly idiots those 90 Tory MPs are. Voting IDS out shows how out of touch with the grassroots they are. The country does not need another slick actor who promises much and delivers little. Wj need a PM who will do what he promises and put Britain's interests first. A P, Newport, Gwent (5/11) ——————————————————————————————————5/11— News index 301 Politics 327 Letters must be no more than 60 words and must include name and address. This also applies to e-mail letters. Poll Index In Focus Regional

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:12:29           ————— LETTERS OF THE YEAR ————  TORIES: AN IMPROVED OPPOSITION Dear Teletext, Congratulations to the Tory MPs who realised the disastrous mistake that had been made two years ago and decided to do something about it. Michael Howard would bring wide experience and intellectual prowess to the job and I expect to see the level of political debate in this country improve considerably. M P, Cheltenham, Glos (5/11) ——————————————————————————————————6/11— News index 301 Politics 327 Letters must be no more than 60 words and must include name and address. This also applies to e-mail letters. Poll Index In Focus Regional

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:32:41           ————— LETTERS OF THE YEAR ————  TORIES: HOWARD'S HEALING HANDS Dear Teletext, T P (3/11) says: "Michael Howard was an active member of the most loathed government in living memory." Wrong. He's never been a member of Blair's government that now holds that title. He was a member of the Thatcher government that took us from being the sick man of Europe to one of its most successful economies. T B, Tarporley, Cheshire (11/11) ——————————————————————————————————7/11— News index 301 Politics 327 Letters must be no more than 60 words and must include name and address. This also applies to e-mail letters. Poll Index In Focus Regional

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:12:11           ————— LETTERS OF THE YEAR ————  TORIES: ARE THEY TAKING THE MICHAEL? Dear Teletext, If the answer to the Tory leadership question is Michael Howard, then it is worth carefully examining the question. P W, Newbury, Berkshire (28/10) ——————————————————————————————————8/11— News index 301 Politics 327 Letters must be no more than 60 words and must include name and address. This also applies to e-mail letters. Poll Index In Focus Regional

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:17:30           ————— LETTERS OF THE YEAR ————  TORIES: PEOPLE HAVE VERY SHORT MEMORIES Dear Teletext, Do we really want a return to Toryism, greed, sleaze, corruption, unemployment, boom and bust? I don't think so. But the vast majority of letters on these pages seem to long for this. Do they embrace the policies which will bring these things or do they have short memories. I hope the latter. T P, London (1/8) ——————————————————————————————————9/11— News index 301 Politics 327 Letters must be no more than 60 words and must include name and address. This also applies to e-mail letters. Poll Index In Focus Regional

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:17:50           ————— LETTERS OF THE YEAR ————  TORIES: TONY COULD BE TORY LEADER Dear Teletext, What about Tony Blair taking over from IDS? I am sure that many Tories would support him over Iraq, others would support him over Europe and I am equally sure that most Labour back- benchers would be glad to see the back of him. C P, Worcester (14/3) ——————————————————————————————————10/11 News index 301 Politics 327 Letters must be no more than 60 words and must include name and address. This also applies to e-mail letters. Poll Index In Focus Regional

P346 Teletext 346 Dec30 21:11:12           ————— LETTERS OF THE YEAR ————  TORIES: SPIN WAS A TORY INVENTION Dear Teletext, Iain Duncan Smith and co blame Tony Blair and co for inventing "spin", but it was started long before Labour came to power by Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's press secretary, whose job was presenting her and her policies in the best possible light. T A, Purley, Surrey (15/8) ——————————————————————————————————11/11 News index 301 Politics 327 Letters must be no more than 60 words and must include name and address. This also applies to e-mail letters. Poll Index In Focus Regional

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