LETTERS Who wears the trousers?
Sir: The front cover of your 13 March issue ('Breeding winners') carries yet another Printing of a famous photograph taken in July 1937 of two toffs and three lads — except that one lad has been obliterated by your artist's impression of the Prime Minis- ter. I am that lad. Yet I have not been entirely obliterated, for the stance, the hand in the pocket and the baggy trousers are all clearly mine. You will be pleased to know that, having taken legal advice, I do not propose to sue you to obliteration. However, as I now share a particular pair of baggy trousers with the Prime Minister, I feel entitled to address a few remarks to him through your columns.
I never aspired to be a toff but, approaching retirement after a blameless and hard-working life (as a Conservative voter), I have been looking forward to a comfortable retirement. I am now becom- ing nervous. VAT on domestic fuel today, What tomorrow? Could the man sharing my trousers please give me some worthwhile assurance that I will not face economic obliteration in my old age? Good lads deserve better.
George Young 13 Basterfield House, Golden Lane, London EdI
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