r. Simon directs his appeal to those who 'vary their
priorities according to circumstances.' And very right, too. Politics are largely a matter of redressing the balance. But I fail to see the relevance of oppor- tunity to the problems of unorganised fixed:income groups. Or that the traditional priorities, for- social reform are qualitatively different today.
Granted that there are few men on street corners with no job to go to: and many earning handsome wage packets. But is it sentimental to deplore that numbers of old people still live, eat. and sleep in one room and cannot afford a wireless set? Is it old- fashioned to be ashamed of mean streets, houses with- out plumbing and all the trimmings of industrial squalor? Is it hopelessly unrepresentative to pay taxes willingly that these things should be changed?
In the past I have supported the Labour Party not for its particular policies .(with which I may disagree) or for its leaders, but because it was on the side of the underprivileged. I am sorry if this seems very un- sophisticated to Mr. Simon, but for me it .remains decisive.—Yours faithfully, 63 Char! bert Court. NW 8
W. T. RODGERS
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