GORDON Brown’s bankrupt Labour Conference speech contained reference to young, unmarried mothers.

Delegates produced a flow of drivel, like ectoplasm from a medium. While Mrs Brown’s stint at the podium was pure bathos, a house divided presented its public image.

The shameless use of the truly heart-rending, self-immolation of the poor young woman from Leicestershire and her disabled daughter, was nauseating.

Naturally, it suits Labour to feign sympathy for those terrorised by teens; but violent crime is not exclusive to sink estates, it’s everywhere – from lower order criminals to politicians and bankers.

Labour sympathises with the mass of people when needing their votes.

Surprise, surprise, no calls for return to capital punishment, or really tough measures to combat crime – just revamped Asbos.

Massive social problems, previously denied – though obvious, even to a hermit – suddenly receive an airing.

Labour seems to have encouraged a meteoric rise in inexcusable, sociopathic behaviour greater than anything since the activities of Atilla the Hun.

Blair convinced people in 1997, though the socialist mask soon slipped, revealing personal desire and ambition.

Fair-weather friends quickly jumped ship, disillusioned, traditional supporters sat on their hands, and some even countenanced the BNP alternative.

Labour, drained of traditional support, sought to build a constituency based on a mass of drones, never-ending flows of immigrants, and a sizeable number of faint-hearted liberals, who owe Labour for lavish, politically correct lifestyles.

STEPHEN WARD, Tudor Close, Oxford