Letters: More questions about who and what Labour represents

Aditya Chakrabortty (G2, April 2) David Miliband accused of being a "Gold Class" to show how some Labour MPs came from manual labor now. He never heard of the Education Act 1944? In 1945, there was a wide range of intellectual abilities of the working class - probably a little less than in the population as a whole. Some come in blue-collar jobs very bright children, but were organized by the trade union movement in politics and ultimately parliament. But as children of above-average ability are filtered, while the new school system, more and more brilliant suffered secondary schools entering the white-collar jobs, even careers. So, less intelligent craft of children enrolled. So now, the range of ability within the class of manual work is reduced significantly compared to 1945. Industrial companies have stopped looking to the future management of young people who leave school prematurely. People looking to have gone to college and university. I hope that the unions also recognize this reality has changed.
Then of course, aspiring Labour MPs today are different from the cohort who entered the House of Commons with Ernest Bevin, or John Prescott, a generation later. They are an educated group, as David Miliband.

David Nelson

Burntisland

• William Wallace (Letters, April 4), seems to have forgotten labor policies before 2010 have been fighting the budget deficit. The economy returned to growth and the budget deficit was lower than expected. There was no mess. The idea that social spending under the Labour government represented the "debt" instead of the banking crisis and the fall in tax revenue policy emphasizes the successors of the Beveridge poverty in the Liberal Democrats. No responsible member of the Labour Party denied that the deficit requires more attention. Wallace and his party can console themselves by tinkering with the tax loopholes and personal deductions. But nothing should distract the electorate coalition ground that blocked the economy since 2010 and has resulted in much higher than expected government borrowing by Labour.
Peter Kenyon

London

• • What is most disturbing about the NHS (Comment 4 April) is the silence of the first row of the work. Although there has been talk of investment Andy Burnham NHS changes, there is no such commitment to the party leadership. For me, as a former activist of the party, too reminiscent of the period before 1997. Then they told us not to worry about rail privatization as already ruling would allow franchises who work railways course and then be taken into public hands.
• What actually happened was the opposite, the Labour government has become a fan of privatization. The Labour government also became a tireless advocate for the privatization of parts of the health service. I fear a Labour government after 2015 will find an excuse to leave the health service in private hands.

Derrick Joad

Leeds


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