How refreshing it was to read Mr Zeid’s letter (Your Views, March 10) bringing attention to the danger of coalition governments.

Quite rightly he said, and I quote: “Dodgy alliances where the will of the people is trampled by vested interests with no real mandate.”

He was obviously referring to this country’s present coalition which is bringing in ideological privatisations against the wishes of the electorate. The reorganising of the NHS, the new education policy and the “Big Society” being just three. We won’t even mention the volte-face of the university fees.

Where he is ever so slightly wrong, obviously, is that the present state of affairs has been produced by the first past the post system and we will have to wait another four years until we can get rid of this “small unrepresentative caucus”.

Michael Sayer
Cunningham Park, Harrow