I WAS fascinated to receive a leaflet this week from Anne Sacks, the Labour Party's prospective Parliamentary candidate for Lancaster.

I thought it strange because the Government is only three years into its five-year term of office - unless there is something about the timing of the next election Labour has told Anne Sacks but haven't told the rest of us?

I was fasinated to find that Ms Sacks appears to have joined the Green Party, judging by the way she tells us the Labour Party suddenly supports sustainable transport and fair trade and is against gas storage proposals on the Wyre estuary.

I was amazed since Anne supports concreting the Lune estuary with a Western bypass which is so sustainable' it has already been twice thrown out at public inquiry.

I was amazed since I recall Tony Blair recently appointing his disgraced buddy Peter Mandelson as the EU Trade Commissioner responsible for continuing to push Europe's decidedly unfair agenda of corporate welfare and global privatisation in the World Trade Organisation.

I was also amazed that the Labour Party should have the cheek to jump on the bandwagon of opposing dangerous gas storage while subsidising two dangerous local nuclear power stations.

If Ms Sacks wants to do Green things, maybe she should join the Green Party? If, however, she wants to cynically court the Green vote so she can triumph over the Tories in the election, then she should carry on as she is.

But Citizen readers should not expect her to carry out any of the progressive Green things she promises as part of a Labour Government that has become more right wing than Margaret Thatcher.

Matthew Wootton, Lancaster Green Party.