24 OCTOBER 1981, Page 17

SDPersons

Sir: I find Auberon Waugh's fantasy that the SDP consists mainly of 'bony, garrulous, idiotic women' (17 October) contrary to fact and offensive. I have met no such women at the SDP meetings I have attended. I myself am slightly over-weight, speak to the point as shortly as possible, and am generally considered to be sane. Can Mr Waugh be transferring his experience of some much disliked governess of his early years on to the members of a party he wishes to denigrate, and doing this as offensively as possible in order to show how clever he is?

Isabel S. Jacobs

27 Amsuns Hill, London NW11