Rotten opportunism
Sir: The fallibility of experts, especially political and economic, is notorious. Hence it was not a tremendous surprise to hear your able political correspondent Patrick Cosgrave say on the air several times recently that the present struggle for popular suffrage would be a neck-and-neck affair. The new epithet of today's voter is 'volatile' but it is surely inconceivable that the mass of British people retain any respect for rotten opportunism as embodied in the persons of Benn, Wilson, Healey and Callaghan. Were they to regain power in our present dire straits it would be like living in the postMunich Chamberlain era over again. Less ignominious, less squirm-making would be rule by a triumvirate of Gormley-Daly-McGahey.
G. Reichardt 12a Mount Pleasant Road, Poole, Dorset
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