AT last we've got it, The Thoughts of Chairman Tony, the Little Red Book. Within its pages are 273 promises of which 272 have been made before and broken. Cut gun crime: the first thing Tony did when he first came to office was ban hand guns. Now there is more gun crime in Britain than ever before.

Hospital waiting lists, taxation, asylum policy, education, education, education, transportation you name it, Labour have broken their promises. Well at least there's one promise that even Gordon Brown hopes is kept, that this will be his last election as Prime Minister.

And for the LibDems, Charles Kennedy has worked out how to increase their membership. He showed us ably on the steps of Westminster Hospital last Wednesday.

JOHN D FARRER, Mallard Place, Oswaldtwistle.