MR GR Holwill should not be surprised at the Conservatives wishing to repeal the Hunting Act, Letters, October 9.

Historically, most of the hunting folk are Conservative voters and always have been and this is the real reason the Tories wish to repeal the Hunting Act. It has nothing to do with the fox whatsoever but to do with voters.

I hope this party never gets in, but if it does I can see trouble looming if it repeals the Hunting Act.

We had two major riots the last time the Conservatives were in office — the poll tax and miners riots. In the case of the miners, the Conservatives were successful in destroying entire communities in South Wales that have never recovered to this very day.

In the early 1990s, the Conservatives had been in power for 12 years. They presented us with massive borrowing, very high unemployment and hundreds of thousands losing their homes. People face repossession even today — the difference is the Tories never put anything in place to help those facing repossession.

To top this the Conservatives virtually destroyed the NHS, which Labour had to painstakingly repair.

I don't trust the Tory leader Dave "ask me a straight question" Cameron or his sidekick George Osborne. They both come over as insincere.

They would have been better to appoint Boris Johnson as leader. Okay he buffoons around a little, but at least he comes over as genuine.

There is a cast-iron certainty the Conservatives are going to hammer the poorest folk and the pensioners and this will, of course, include all the retired Tories who enjoy bus passes. Just remember this, if the Tories were in power in 2008 they would have faced the same worldwide crisis as Labour.

The Conservatives would certainly not be exempt from world conditions.

It's all very well for them to sit back and tell us what they would have done, but going by their past record we could well be in an even greater crisis.

Thank goodness they are not in power.

Brian Sharpe

Ladysmith Road, Exeter