REGARDING the report on the British National Party’s membership list? (LT, November 20).

We’ve seen this kind of establishment persecution before: Jews in National Socialist Germany, political ‘dissidents’ in the revolutionary socialist Soviet Union, and now members of the BNP in Labour’s democratic Socialist Britain of 2008.

Who’s next for the ‘chopping block’ because of their opinions? Members of the media? But that’s already happened. Quote: “it is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it impossible to earn a living” Bertrand Russell.

But when were the freedom of thought, speech and the individual abandoned in this county? I was never asked, were you? s it any wonder there’s so much cynicism about British politics, parts of the media and law and order? Many people, myself included, don’t like the bullying ways of the ‘Orwellian’ British establishment. Remember this: 1918. ‘ A land fit for heroes’. 1945 ; ‘We will look after you from the cradle to the grave.’ Classical verbal diarrhoea from an ungrateful British establishment.

BERT HARDWICK, Queensway, Waddington.