2 NOVEMBER 1974, Page 4

Sir: What is wrong with Sir Keith Joseph's speech on

population is not his definition of a 'social problem' — there are and always will be feckless People who produce children without the means to support them — but that he failed to realise the true immorality of the situation which is that the rest of us, through compulsory taxation, are forced to support these people and their offspring. Herein lies the fascism of which he has been accused.

The speech was hailed, quite rightlY, as a statement of fundamental Toil philosophy which is of course socialist and presents the voter with no alternative to the political philosophy of the Teresa Moore 58 Hopton Road, London SW16