LET'S have a laugh at Mr Hill says the local commissar, Steve Metcalfe. Well, it will be a rare laugh for this humourless bunch of failures, no-hopers and psychological cripples who describe themselves as 'Marxists.' Humour is thin on the ground amongst such people.

As an example of the 'thinking' of such a bunch of losers our very own Steve is first class.

They are a dishonest, cowardly, stupid bunch whose only quality is that of unconscious comic genius.

'Steve' is the man who claims to represent 'thousands' and manages to get 29 inept, shuffling intellectual degenerates out every May Day on what he, with unconscious irony, calls a march.

It is a march against the evils of capitalism, held by people who support a philosophy that, wherever and whenever it has been tried, has been rejected with contempt by the workers whom it was supposed to represent.

'Steve' pours scorn on my allegation that fascism is 'left-wing' in origin. He does not answer it, though.

I once, through your columns, asked him a few direct questions and challenged him to give a direct answer.

The questions were: was Oswald Mosley a member of the Labour Cabinet before he founded the British Union of Fascists?

Was Mussolini a member of the Italian Socialist Party before he, too, founded a fascist movement?

Was Adolf Hitler the leader of the German National Socialist party?

The answer to all three questions is an unequivocal 'yes' but 'Steve' just does not have the guts to admit the historic and undeniable fact in print in your columns.

He did, of course, reply to my letter (it's a pity he hasn't got a proper job that gives him something else to do) but, in the way of 'socialists' throughout the world he just ignored the questions that he found uncomfortable.

Frankly, I do not see why 'Steve' finds such questions uncomfortable. His 'brother' Joe Stalin was quite unashamed about his admiration for, and treaties with, Adolf Hitler until Adolf, like a true Socialist, stabbed him in the back.

Perhaps is 'Steve' lived in one of his Commie Utopias, he would have been sent to a nice, comfortable 're-education' camp.

Might I suggest, Mr Editor, that before you publish another letter from this poor oddity, you ask him to please, please answer my three very simple questions, 'yes' or 'no'. You could also advise him that, if he doesn't know the answers or gets them wrong, he can always sue the Local Education Authority. Perhaps he ought to consider that in any event.

William Hill, Skerton