MAY I compliment you on your excellent editorial (LET, August 20) supporting Jack Straw's honest comments on itinerant travellers?
The politically correct zealots are already bleating 'racist' and by so doing, they show their utter contempt for fair comment and free speech, which is the basic component of a democratic society.
JOHN EDDLESTON, Brownhill Road, Blackburn.
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