Country is ruled by a dictator

Britain is now a dictatorship in all but name. We are ruled by a non-elected Prime Minister who has refused to consult the people on two counts - a promised referendum on the EU Constitution and an aborted General Election.

For 10 years Brown as Chancellor all but ruled Britain - "He who holds the purse strings calls the tune".

He has thrown money - our money - at everything which seemed to be a problem (the health service and education, to name but two).

With great pride we are told: "Look what we have done. Look how we have doubled the money spent."

No-one, least of all the Government, made sure that the management was "fit for purpose" and could handle all that money and the rules which went with it.

He milked and ruined the pension service schemes. He took away the services supplied by the Post Offices.

Now they are threatened with closure.

A plan is produced, meetings held. Stakeholders are consulted but not the affected people, who are sidelined.

Nothing is altered. A good example of this is the recent treatment of the huge petition against moving the headquarters of the ambulance service out of Shropshire.

Our national debt grows. Money is poured into bureaucratic schemes whose designers care little or nothing about the people they have such control over. Trust in the democratic process is fast disappearing.

Our country is becoming a Third - no, Fourth - World country. This must not be allowed to continue. Gordon Brown, ably assisted by the rulings of the European Constitution, must be stopped from dictating to us all what we can or cannot do.

Councillor Eileen Sandford MBE, Shrewsbury