""I am left wing. Please can you tell me how you arrived at the conclusion that I do not have any manners?""

SPB, at the time that comment was made, it was obviously directed at a very specific group of left wingers, who do not believe that I have a right to an opinion unless it co-incides with their political beliefs.

A swift glance through the posts on this thread will bear out my comment that they have no manners, and no belief in the democratic rights for others which they claim for themselves.

While I have made some very strong (and, I believe justified) comments about politicians, I have, until personally attacked, refrained from personal attack upon them.

You were not part of that vilification, and my comments on it were emphatically not applied to you, or to any other non-participant.

Don T.