Falling out of love with The Daily Telegraph

It may be my daily newspaper of choice. And I may well approve of journalists using a certain amount of subterfuge to get a story. But I'm afraid The Daily Telegraph has, in my view, overstepped the mark with their undercover activities concerning Lib Dem ministers.

It is clear that this is not investigative journalism designed to uncover some wrong doing. It is mischief-making pure and simple. Why? Because many of the Telegraph's senior staff and readers are dyed in the wool old school Tories. "Sharing" is a not word in their vocabularies.

But the fact is that the electorate voted in such a way that demands that our politicians share power and work together.

Back in May the Telegraph welcomed the coalition - albeit with a slight reservation. But now it has taken against the idea. Perhaps because it is working. Deep down right wingers such as Simon Heffer probably hoped it wouldn't work. But it has.

So what to do? Destabilise the coalition by waging war in an underhand way on the Lib-Dems. Does the Telegraph really think the Lib Dems will fold their tents and steal quietly away into the night and leave the Tories to run the country alone?

One thing the Telegraph has overlooked. If we the people had wanted a Tory government we would have voted in such numbers as to put one into power.

Now the big question is what paper do I change to for my daily read?