The real Bill
Sir: May I answer the attacks of John Gibbs and Mabyn Fletcher (Letters, 8 August) please?
Far from being a 'sort of patronising middle-class twit' who sells Militant and has a rich daddy to bail me out . . • I have no property, shares or wealth, I left school at 16 to join the army and my father is a railway guard and my mother a shop worker. The only contact I have had with, Welsh workers was during the miners' strike when I spent a year collecting money (and plenty of abuse!) for a pit in South Wales. I don't sell Militant or any other political papers, sorry.
I regret that Mabyn Fletcher earns less than I do (05) but is he saying that workers should get less than pensioners or what? Should the eight million low-paid workers in this country (Child Poverty Action Group's figures, not mine) feel grateful that they earn slightly more than a state pensioner? Perhaps we need more humble, forelock-touching, deferential proles in Great Britain.
Bill Wells
The Grapevine, Gwydir Street, Cambridge
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