Bridgwater's last chance
Sir: Mr Auberon Waugh (31 January) ad- mits that Parliament does not represent general public opinion on the Common Market, hanging or immigration. This, of course, is perfectly true. He then goes on, however: 'And on those matters, as usual, the general public is wrong.' Maybe so, but Britain is supposed to be a democracy and in a democracy the general public must al- ways be assumed to be right, whatever the individual may think, or else the system will collapse. It is bad enough having a Government which pays no heed to public opinion; when all three major parties effectively conspire to ignore our views on important issues the situation is desperate. 'One man, one vote; no choice, no democracy..
Philip Dudley Hawkins Chesham House, King's College, London wc2
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