The view from Vermont
From Mr Henry Tottenham Sir: The Tory Matthew Richards (Letters, 9 September), hopes for a Gore victory in November. He's a visiting scholar, so he won't have to live with it. I'm another expa- triate Englishman living in the USA (12 years) and I devoutly hope that George Bush wins. The thought of having to listen to the platitudinous Gore and his moaning henchpersons for the next four or eight years is a real turn-off.
Mr Richards cites gun control as an issue. Here in Vermont you don't even need a permit to carry a concealed firearm, and the incidence of violent crime is about the lowest in the country. It is a bucolic version of the Mutually Assured Destruction theory to which, like it or not, we owe half a century of peace and pros- perity.
I think Mr Richards has been talking to some rather wishy-washy Tories, and I hope that their views will not be the wave of the future in the Grand Old (Conservative) party.
Henry Tottenham
Vermont, USA
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