27 OCTOBER 1984, Page 23

Low jibes

Sir: 'In the interests of veracity' I would like to know just how your reader Mr Ireland (Letters, 20 October) can possibly know the truth of Mr Bernard's visit to Longchamp with his 'blind date' — did he accompany the happy couple, as chaperon?

Mr Bernard's column is after all written from his own personal viewpoint and sure- ly Mr Ireland is not so naïve as to believe that because his experience of the lady in question is a happy one that everyone else would find the same.

I think Mr Bernard should be allowed to continue the privilege of expressing his views in the same way the lady has express- ed hers that Mr Bernard is 'a boring little fart' and 'a complete turn-off' — what a lot of fun she is missing. I have always found him to live up to his reputation of being `the Albert Finney of the arse end of the Coach and Horses' and quite a turn-on!

P. O'Clare

3d Hyde Park Mansions, Transept. Street, London NW1