22 MARCH 2003, Page 29

Upper-class prats

From Mr Brian Bashani Sir: Peter Oborne's recent piece ('Decline and fall of the Hooray Henry', 8 March) glorifying upper-class bullying shows that there is still a breed of Conservative that continues to make the party unelectable.

Some years ago the great cartoonist Hector Breeze summed up the attitude of most people to the vile behaviour which °borne so admires. Breeze showed two skinheads talking together: one was saying to the other, 'If we were upper-class, we could indulge in some youthful indiscretions.'

Brian Basham London NW3