BECAUSE Mr Blair seems to like fairy tales (look at all those broken promises and assurances) it could be imagined by a campaign-weary (and perhaps wary, too) electorate that each morning as he adjusts his smirk in the mirror he asks it "mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the biggest liar of them all?"

I wonder what the mirror would reply?

Pure fantasy, but stark reality looms large for the people he and his Government have so very badly let down.

After eight years of hard Labour their message of 1997 surely remains sadly the same - "things can only get better" regarding:

Pensioners still waiting for a decent basic pension without means testing, including equality for women and link to earnings

The cruel council tax which hurts the poor the most and can lead to the imprisonment of pensioners who do not pay up

The rich versus poor divide increasing

Honesty over foreign policy - an illegal invasion of Iraq yet we allow genocide and starvation in Darfur

An obsession over ID cards, the threat to civil liberty and the consequent waste of our money

Violent crime on the up and up while many disillusioned police officers are leaving the force

Huge queues of people seeking a National Health Service dentist

The threat now of 6,000 rural post office jobs going after the election.

This list could go on and I'm sure Evening Press readers could add many more to it.

But let's not fall into the same trap as Tony Blair - the one of going on for far too long.

T Scaife,

Manor Drive, York.

Updated: 11:14 Tuesday, April 26, 2005