THE new White Paper on Health seems to have resolved the question of enforced fluoridation of our water supply.

“Shared decision making will become the norm: No decision about me without me”.

So if you or I do not want it, as was the case with 72 per cent of those consulted in Southampton, we will not have to have it?

Of course, Gordon Brown said that ‘It’s up to the local people’ two days before it was clear that under that government, it wasn’t.

But surely this government cannot possibly want to be tarred with the same mucky brush at the start of their term?

Margaret J Reichlin MacCallum Road Upper Enham.

Due to an ambiguity in the production of this letter last week, which cast some doubt on its precise meaning, it has been published again.

Ed