NORTH Yorkshire Police have one of the best detection rates in the country, up to 34.8 per cent.
Crime has been reduced by 13.8 per cent with nearly 31 per cent fewer burglaries, a record to be proud of. Yet, Michael Howard insults the police by claiming crime is up.
We will soon have one of the most modern hospitals in the country and our nurses and doctors are doing a great job. Yet Michael Howard insults them by saying they do not wash their hands and hospitals are dirty.
Michael Howard tells us the Conservative Party is a party of low taxes yet, when they were in power, they increased VAT on nearly everything by a whopping 9.5 per cent. They hurt pensioners by putting VAT on gas and electricity.
We are still paying for putting them in before.
Dennis Barton,
Acorn Way, York.
Updated: 10:08 Friday, April 15, 2005
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