My wife was turning out her archives the other day, and found this clipping from a very old paper (we are 73), which we thought very topical with the election coming up.

Obviously there must have been an election coming up then, so I thought you may be interested in it:

The best thing is to listen to all sides and then draw one's own confusions.

We had to admire the straight-forward way the speaker dodged all the issues.

He stood for what he thought the people would fall for.

He claimed he was standing on his record - no doubt to prevent the voters from examining it.

It would have been better, "straight-from-the-shoulder" politician though he was, if he had talked from a little higher up.

Listening to him we recalled the shrewd commentator who said: "There are some political candidates who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries for dinner..."

If the candidates want to relieve human suffering they might take a look at the British taxpayer.

Prosperity is something businessmen create for the politicians to take credit for.

Whichever side wins - we should have a better government than the one we are going to get.

Government is like a stomach. If it is doing its work properly you hardly realise you have got one.

The Government should be glad the taxpayers have got what it takes.

The trouble about an election is what comes afterwards. You may know the verse:

But you cannot make him drink;

But you cannot make him think.

A man of 20 who is not a socialist has a hard heart. A man of 40 who is one has a soft head.

Most candidates are fond of statistics. They use them as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

- Lord Hill of Luton, formerly Dr Charles Hill, MP.

-G Bird, Hove