Since I was a young girl I was brought up to believe the Labour Party was the only party that truly represented the working class, the poor and the under-privileged.

Since 1997 much of what the Labour Government has done in this country through their policies have attacked the working class.

Gas and electricity prices have doubled, bus and rail fares have increased, we pay many hidden stealth taxes, and for those of us, who have always been natural Labour supporters, life has become very expensive.

I can just about afford the basic essentials, without life's little luxuries.

I have a young daughter at school, and as kids do, she grows out of clothes very quickly. It is very expensive to buy new clothes for kids.

Crime has also got so out of hand, and it has me worried about what sort of a world she is growing up in.

Hearing time after time what David Cameron has to say, I now believe the only party which has the ideas and policies to truly represent the ordinary man, woman and child, the working class are the Conservatives.

I just cannot afford to vote Labour.

Helen Daly
Heygate Avenue
Southend