26 NOVEMBER 1988, Page 26

Sir: Noel Malcolm's tease about the hum- bug displayed by

Central Office in re- pudiating the infant Conservative Associa- tion in Ulster (Politics, 19 November) was a great consolation.

I think the ordinary members of the Tory Party have awoken to the anomaly that Ulster's people, alone in the Western world, cannot vote for or against Government-forming parties.

The Northern Ireland Office's agents in Smith Square will now have to repudiate the Conservative councillors who will emerge in Ulster and then reject the victorious Tory candidates in the Euro- elections next June. The artifice of pro- portional representation imposed on the province will de-stabilise Central Office's electoral boycott of one and a quarter million people.

Peter Clarke

Kirkton House, Kirkton Manor, Peebles