DO not forget the late 1980s. Interest rates jumped to 15% and more. What party was in power? The Conservative Party.

Hundreds of thousands of homes re-possesed, great hardship to people's lives with inestimable stress which lasted ten years and more. Who was in power? We know who.

Today's problems are quite small in comparison. Have we got such short memories? I think not.

R K Elphick

Barton Road

Okehampton