NOT only does N G Charnley's letter (Citizen, June 3) insult the young males and female MPs in the House of Commons by referring to them as "many young upstarts", he asks readers to let their MPs know that Labour will never be elected again if hereditary peers are dislodged.

These are the very people who seek to undermine and destroy the authority of elected MPs, the government of this country and its legislation by using the veto in the House of Lords.

His statement that hereditary peers are not driven by ambition nor do they need to pander to the electorate suggests he believes hereditary peers have the right to govern this country - whether elected or not.

I believe these peers intend to hang on to power as a means of making the European Union unworkable by any means possible.

May I suggest N G Charnley writes to his local MP and protests against the planned cut in the state widows pension, which was sneaked in by the last Tory government, together with rail privatisation.

I, for one, am looking forward to the new millennium in the hands of our Labour Government to make a better, fairer, caring and sharing world for all of us.

Mr D Barrett,

Cairn Grove,

Blackpool.

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