Backing Britain
Sir: As an ex-serviceman, 1914 vintage, I am still a sucker for a patriotic call to sacrifice.
In my seventy-fourth year I am useless on the production line yet I find it difficult to refuse three meals a day. The PM says we must cut down on home consumption and the only way I can see for me to help would be for me to die. That goes for most old-age pensioners.
Therefore, as an example to others, I solemnly and sincerely offer myself to the firing squad.
I would like to be shot by a squad of city gents, Bank of England directors preferred, in full uni- form—bowler hat, brief case, rolled umbrella and pin-striped trousers; my execution to be shown on TV with sound effects so that the world can hear my last words: 'God save the pound.' I suggest 'Land of Hope and Glory' as background music but, as I have lost hope, could I have a little glory, please? A monument to my memory with the brief epitaph, 'He fell that the pound might rise' would please me.
R. C. Proctor 6 Belgrave Crescent, Blyth, Northumberland
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