I HAVE always read the political postbag in the Daily Echo, but I cannot quite understand why there are so many parties.

Are these parties fighting to get more members, or are they fighting to get a better deal for this country and its people?

I have always had the feeling that if they were all interested only in the welfare of this country and its people then it would only need one party, yes, one party.

So why do they not all get together for the ‘British People’s Party’? I wonder what others think?

A W HANLON, Southampton.