I HAVE been a conservative voter all my life and today they have lost my vote.

The sell off of council houses was wrong under Margaret Thatcher and is even more wrong today.

Buying your own home is referred to as a step on the housing ladder, getting a council house is getting a step on a ladder of life to many.

It's the first home for many who could never dream of having a safe, secure place they can call their own in the knowledge that their landlord is fair.

This is housing stock that belongs to the British population, its not the governments to sell off cheap.

We need more affordable housing, not less.

This is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Please send a clear message to the conservatives that enough is enough.

However, I can't also vote Labour, because I just don't see Ed Miliband as my prime minister.

So its a protest vote for me.

Andrew Davidson

Bury