Labour just a bunch of Tories blah blah

Someone must have dipped his pen into a wee bottle of perspective this morning:

I am tired of the liberal elite fantasy that the Lib Dems are to the left of Labour (Letters, December 19). Labour has been so adept at covering up its own progressive achievements in government in order to secure the middle-class vote, and the Lib Dems have become so skilful at pretending that they are centre-left social democrats rather than the opportunistic, rootless right-wingers that all Labour and Tory political activists know them to be, that misinformed ignoramuses of the middle class, who have no sense of political realities, spread misinformation of the most laughable kind.

If anyone really thinks that the current government is a Tory one, they should cast their mind back 20 years to when we had an actual Tory government.
George Owers
Chelmsford, Essex

A nice antidote to the ever tiresome notion that because Labour doesn't do everything the left wants it to do, it's analogous to the Tory party. Grow up.