IN 1938 as a 16-year-old teenager, my paternal grandmother gave me a piece of advice.

She said: “Never put your trust or faith in persons who are politically ambitious, because they fill your head with falsehoods and charge a massive premium for the privilege.”

She also said they speak with forked tongue, and say good morning with both faces. How true have been her words over the last three decades.

Thatcher started an unnecessary and costly war to boost her flagging ego, then sold off our prize assets to foreign investors who are now fleecing the British public with gas and electricity charges.

Then we had Bush’s puppet — “grinning Tony” — who conspired to involve us in another expensive bust-up, based on lies, who then sailed away into the sunset to make millions on the speech circuit.

In recent months, MPs fiddling expenses, Cameron and his public school cohorts vowing to carry on Thatcher’s work if elected, and the latest to manifest itself is in the form of a treacherous backstabber. I recommend it would be advisable for Gordon Brown to use Caesar's last words “et tu Brute”, while I say “Dum Spiro Spero”.

J Higson
Torridon Road
Bolton