Blackpool snobs '
Sir: Blackpool may be an abomina- tion to Mr Bernard Levin, but a lot of people go there knowing what it has to offer, and because this is what they like. Would Mr Levin bundle them all off willy-nilly on package tours to the Mediterranean, to be burned lobster-red by the fierce southern sun and to have their bowels turned to water by strange foreign fare? Would be send them on sight-seeing tours of the capitals of Europe to broaden their cultural experience? How cruel, and furthermore, how dictatorial!
Doubtless many could afford to go elsewhere; many have already been abroad and found it not to their taste—they actually prefer Blackpool. We do not all like the same things. Mr Levin likes opera. So do I, but there are many to whom it is sheer purgatory.
People are entitled to choose where and how to spend their leisure without fear of mockery and ridicule, so please, Mr Levin, do not be so unbearably bitchy about Blackpool; you might be reincarnated as a deck-chair attendant there some day and that would be a turn-up for the book! June Blane Mark Cross House, Ripe, Lewes, Sussex
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