On racialists and snobs
Sir: Sir Denis Brogan's 'Table Talk' will soon only be tolerated at the dinner tables of those leftist-liberals of your leading article. His arro- gance is beyond belief. He disagrees with Enoch Powell: therefore, not only is Enoch Powell wrong and, for some obscure reason, an intel- lectual snob, but all those who share his views are brazen and stupid (3 May).
Very many Englishmen consider that it is brazen stupidity to accept without protest the creation, yearly, of the equivalent of a town the size of, say, Peterborough or St Albans, con- sisting entirely of coloured or any other immi- grants. As a farmer I deplore the extra demands this must make on our shrinking acres of farmland.
Sir Denis Brogan typifies the attitude you so pungently condemned in your leading article and which is so exasperating those many of us with no pretensions to intellectualism. Every other country is allowed to be nationalistic. The Welsh and Scottish Nationalists are positively heroic and the darlings of the press. But let anyone shout for English Nationalism—Oh no, that's racialism.
Peter Moore Coppice Farm, Castle Donington, nr. Derby
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