THE letter from Neil Windbag of the 'Socialist Party of Great Britain,' demonstrates the good sense of the British people in rejecting the lunacies of this little bunch of malevolent social misfits.

In his letter Mr Windbag poses a question.

He asks: "Is it not time that we snapped out of our hypnotic vulnerability.....?"

Well, it's certainly time that you and your pathetically small bunch of fellow travellers did, Neil.

As for the rest of us, most of us are reasonably happy and contented.

No gulags , no 'Berlin walls' and no real food shortages, all of which are well-recognised symptoms of 'socialism'.

No gas chambers either.

They were the products of people calling themselves 'socialists'.

Everywhere that this accursed philosophy has reared its head from Poland to Cambodia, it has lead to disaster for the working class people whom it falsely claims to represent.

And it does not matter at all whether these megalomaniac monsters put 'nations' before 'socialist' or put 'of GB' behind it.

It is significant that the Labour Party had to ditch this 'Socialist' nonsense in order to get elected.

Or ostensibly ditch it, anyway.

I never even saw Princess Margaret and I certainly do not go weak at the knees at the thought of the royal family.

I do know, however, that she was a human being, that she had an unhappy life, that she had children who no doubt loved her and grieve for her and that only a seriously sick mind could conceive of a letter like that so soon after her death.

I also know that the Duke of Edinburgh, notwithstanding his habit of putting his foot in his mouth, fought the Nazis in active service as a seaman during the Second World War whilst Windbag's spiritual ancestors were campaigning for disarmament.

Perhaps that is why these nutters so detest him.

He fought their fellow 'socialists,' the 'national' ones!

However, it is quite clear that Windbag's hysterical rant is the product of a seriously disturbed mind and perhaps he deserves our compassion rather than condemnation.

You must remember, Neil, that this uncaring, brutal, capitalist society of ours has provided a health service that includes psychiatric care, or at least 'Care in the Community', for the seriously disturbed.

It might be an idea to arrange your future meetings in the presence of a psychiatric social worker.

That way the whole lot of you might be given some helpful therapy instead of exacerbating their problems by spending their dole money on alcohol in pubs that specially cater for the social cripples.

And you, Mr Editor.

You run a wonderful letters page forum.

However, there must surely be limits of taste and I should have though that slandering the recently dead would have stretched beyond those limits.

What's next? A letter from Ian Brady on the desirability of paedophilia?

William Hill

Skerton