4 FEBRUARY 2006, Page 21

Ashamed

From Anthony Howard Sir: Gordon Brown asks us to be patriotic and to plant Union flags in our gardens. He should have thought of that before he supported his Prime Minister in taking this country to war on a foundation of lies to Parliament and to the people. I am now thoroughly ashamed to be British and thus for my part in the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqis. I have voted Labour all my life — but never again. These political pygmies have, in eight short years, turned this once proud nation into a land fit only for foul-mouthed drunkards and cowardly sycophants. Blair and Brown are welcome to the lot of them.

Anthony Howard New Forest, Hampshire