SIR,—I am a 'floating voter,' inclined to be Con- servative,
but being neither a politician nor a politician's hack, both of whom find it difficult not to be ambiguous most of the time, I can afford to be self-complacently honest. Would Mr. Henry Fairlie be interested in the reactions of one such reader to 'For "Freedom" Read "Privacy" '?
The only unambiguous paragraph is the first; the most ambiguous is the last. Does he really honestly believe that any redefinition of Conservative policy that would be acceptable to the electorate could lead to fewer threats to the privacy of individuals in a society like ours?
I shall probably vote Conservative in October be- cause, although a pensioner, I am not entirely dependent on my National Insurance pension. If I were I should probably vote Labour in the hope that somebody's privacy—for 'privacy' read 'private interests'—would be further invaded on my behalf.
Does not Mr. Fairlie underestimate his customers? Surely I am not the only moderately intelligent
reader of the Spectator. W. H. RAWLE The Brambles, Wellington Heath, Ledbury, Hereford
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