LEADER of the Conservatives William Hague has stated that he wishes to see detention centres created for asylum seekers.

There are thousands of detention centres in this country, notably in every police station.

On a larger scale, there is always Strangeways, Dartmoor, or even Walton.

Or does he wish to create detention centres on the lines of Colditz, Belsen, Auschwitz and concentrate on this solution?

If this is the face of the Conservatives' ideals, then they can stick it.

I will continue to be a humanitarian socialist and place people and principles before profit and propaganda.

ERIC WALKER, Kingfisher Court, Oswaldtwistle.