ONCE again, Colin Smith of the Totton Conservatives writes to tell readers that his party is so wonderful that spending millions of pounds on a funeral is not excessive.

As Margaret Thatcher in his view, was a ‘great’ Prime Minister. I am not going to list all her faults and bad judgements here. But I remind Colin that the public lost all faith in her and later John Major, and that gave Tony Blair a massive landside victory. Plus disillusioned Conservatives turned out en masse to rebuild the Liberal Party.

Today, the Liberal Democrats are in coalition with his party, as they could not create a workable majority at the General Election in 2010, despite the fact Blair and Brown created the massive debt we are now all in – using Thatcherite policies!

Mrs. Baroness. Lady.

Thatcher. Whatever title you wish to use, was simply a human being like you and I.

We won’t get an all-but-inname state funeral for doing a job. In her case, extremely well paid. Dennis her husband, was a wealthy man therefore they never knew genuine hardship.

The funeral was simply just another opportunity for the Conservatives to showoff.

At our expense.

No Liberal leader would receive such attention nor I expect, want it. I can’t speak for Labour as Tony Blair thinks he is above the rest of us, and always right.

Finally Colin, how many members and councillors have you lost to UKIP?

RICHARD GRANT, Burley.