SIR - Within a week of Gordon Brown being Prime Minister elect, my hopes of a change from the spin and jargon headlines and the reluctance to listen of Tony Blair, were raised and then dashed.

His announcement of more social housing and Margaret Hodge saying UK residents should get preference on housing made me think we were in for a change.

Then we get the announcement that road pricing is going to be stealthily introduced despite all the protests and petitions. Nothing has changed.

Could it be we have already signed up to this scheme with other EU nations and the satellite that will monitor us is being built as we speak.

As I have said before, fuel duty does the job of charging motorists on mileage, what car is driven and how well the car is driven without the need for expensive toys and gadgets.

While I am on the subject of policies being introduced through the back door, how many people know that in 2009 we will sign up for the next part of the assimilation in the EU? If it is such a great idea why are we not being told about it?

David Chapman, Eccleshill Conservative Association, Meadowbank Avenue, Allerton, Bradford