IT IS is looking like a massive 170-seat majority for David Cameron's Conservatives come the next election, based on the current predictions using the Electoral Calculus site.

So perhaps he may want to consider the means to suppress any unrest there surely will be for inflation-busting wage claims, as the Credit Crunch forces many workers into year-on-year wage cuts.

One solution would be for grateful hunt masters, such as fellow old Etonian, Captain Ian Farquhar of the Beaufort Hunt, to assist the police in maintaining civil order. Horses are, after all, a very good means to maintain pubic order. This would also be a good way for the hunting fraternity to say a very big thank you to the police for not enforcing the hunting ban during the bad years of New Labour and to David Cameron for making the barbarity of hunting legal again.

With the recent strike of low paid council workers, I feel I am slipping back in time to 1842 where in Chard the lace mill owners cut the lace workers' wages during a very hot summer, known locally as the Chard Lace Riots. The civic leaders in panic called in the military to deal with these workers.

Graham Forsyth

Fairway Rise, Chard

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