SIR – Why do Lib Dems and Socialists bang on about our having owned such things as water?

Sure, when the Government – not the electorate – looked after it, and I use the words loosely, they did not pay dividends to us or the shareholders, nor did they spend adequately on the infrastructure, leaving that to the more competent people who took on the business privately.

Nationalised industries never made any allowances for or take into account an individual’s finances.

Philip Bird, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley