I JUST love your style, especially in the Opinion column. The one entitled 'But what about jobs?' (LET, June 24) was a classic.

It should be on the cartoon hour as its sentiments reminded me of one of that disaster-prone Wily Coyote character.

Being serious, Labour's plans to get the unemployed off benefit and into jobs are only a small fraction of the ideas on trying to remedy the appalling waste of human resource.

As for an army of bureaucrats, they won't be needed as the redirection of training quangos established by this government could adequately fill that slot.

One important point you also missed is that, because of the Euro-sceptic train on which you jumped the other week, potential investors capital from abroad could be put off, especially those coming under the banner of the single regeneration schemes.

In regions such as this, it is the Labour Party, along with the Liberals, not the Tories, that has encouraged the European businessman to invest and bring employment here.

DUNCAN MCVEE, Robin Bank Road, Darwen.

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