I will never vote labour again until it stops discriminating against marriage!I am also appalled at it's pushing of the Homosexual agenda,the placing of Gay-friendly books in primary schools,the sexual orientation regulations,the disregard for the need for a father in the human fertilisation bill.On top of this,the failure to give us a say on the Lisbon treaty

raymond joseph douglas, northampton uk, uk

To Ben Foster, Penley, I can spell 'their' and 'lose'.

(Only joking, I just used cut and paste.)

joe, Berwickshire, Scotland

Mr Riddell,

You say the “pace of reform” has intensified in academies, but that is to confuse change (and rhetoric) for reform. There has indeed been a mild increase in the number of academies planned. However, that quantitative change has been outweighed by retrograde steps in the remit and powers that academies enjoy. The changes introduced by Ed Balls mean academies lose some control over their curriculum to local education authorities and last week it was announced that they may be compelled to take pupils permanently excluded from other local schools, thus reducing their control over admissions (as well as their attractiveness to aspirational parents).

Tim, London, UK

Labour have no idea how much they are wideley despised by ordinary folks now. Even my Mum..and ex print union rep ..can't stand them.
Its nothing to with policies..or the economy..or pesonalities etc.
Its just that they are seen as morally corrupt. and completely incompetent.
New Labour is seen has having only one over riding principle which is ...do anything and say anything to retain power.
They are basically dis-honourable people.People know that now (especially after Brown bottled the election decision).
The party is hanging on , scared of losing its access to its current trough of perks I guess..but they are simply delaying the inevitable.

SRTimms, edinburgh, scotland

"the sense that something is seriously wrong"

Something is seriously wrong: Brown appears to have no policies. And having bottled the election last year so that he could show us his 'vision for Britain' it now turns out that he hasn't got one.

MarkS, Leeds,

Am I the only person on the face of the planet who can spell "their" and "lose"?

ben foster, penley,

At last the general population are getting the message:
This nulabor government is institutionally corrupt. The corruption is absolute, lead from the top down and out of control. Being rotten to the core and from the core, everything it touches it taints. Having neither the ability nor inclination to change, outside intervention is indicated.

martin brighton, sheffield,

I will never vote Labour again for there immigration policy alone. Both Blair and Brown seem to have done there upmost to destroy the Country in the shortest period possible.

Roger, Surrey,

We see it every day - these MP's just see it now - errrrrrrrrrr !!!!

Ian Payne, WALSALL,

Vote liberal democrats - we have had 18 years of conversative, 11 years of labour - both are absolutely shambolic in governining. People talk how useless and ineffective are the LibDems - have we got anything to loose to give them a go? It will only be another wasteful 5 years if it does go bad, but no one will ever know.

d, london,

Just starting to get the message then ... about time . Labour are doomed and they thoroughly deserve it .

Benzo, Nr Chelmsford,

I won't vote Labour either, I am very disappointed in Gordon Brown, I thought he was going to be magnificent, but it seems all he wanted was to actually be Prime Minister with no thought as to what the job would entail. Whatever was said about Tony Blair, at least he had charisma in public speaking, more than could be said for Brown. And as he loves us being flooded with immigrants so much, maybe we could arrange for him to have to open his house doors to them, and see how he likes that. This country is full up!!

marina, Hemel Hempstead, Herts

Good heavens.
Peter Riddell is criticising the government?
Better late than never but what finally caused the scales to fall from the Riddell eyes?
Can we hope that, in the event of Brown losing the next election, it will be said 'it woz Riddell wot done it'?

Tricia, Sussex, uk

I wont be voting labour next, the £400 road tax bill for my car in 2010 is disgusting. Is it going on roads? Not by the state of the tarmac around here

Nick Prosser, FORRES,