I SEE from the recent YouGov poll that the lead the Conservatives have over Labour has been reduced to just two points.

I did wonder whether this reduction was as a result of the almost daily diet of anti-socialist tripe which we are treated to by a couple of the Echo's regular correspondents.

I live by a busy road but am unaware of the traffic while a few visitors do comment on the noise — similarly people ignore a continuing torrent of amusing rubbish.

Thank goodness people are waking up to exactly what the Tories stand for — increasing tax on the man or woman in the street in order to feather the nests of their wealthy chums.

Already George Osborne is saying he will reduce Government spending in the most deprived areas of the country so that all businesses pay less tax on their profits.

Will the Tories waste time on repealing the 2004 Hunting Act? Yes.

There are many in the Tory Party who want to repeal the minimum wage.

If they obtain power, will dithering David Cameron be able to curtail the right wing of his party?

This detrimental step would be again at the expense of the working man and woman.

Compare the "ordinary bloke" public image of Gordon Brown to the smooth public-school David Cameron, "man of the people", old Etonian, multi-millionaire with his hooligan Bullingdon chums.

Cameron appeals to the ordinary British voter as the "man in the street" as long as that man lives in a millionaires' gated enclave.

At the time of Black Monday, when the pound was forced out of European Exchange Rate Mechanism, Cameron was working as a special adviser to Norman Lamont.

Soon after that disaster, Cameron moved to Carlton as head of corporate communications.

Sky News presenter Jeff Randall, writing in his column in the Daily Telegraph in 2005, said that he would not trust Mr Cameron "with my daughter's pocket money".

To let the Tories win the next election would be a disaster for the country as the record shows how they mismanaged the two self-induced recessions of the 1980s and 1990s.

Paul Harding

Alphington, Exeter