I'm not fanatically devoted to any party to the exclusion of rational thought, but I am fanatical about the rebuttal of lies and half truths used to support the arguments of those who are.

There's a complete lack of respect for others' beliefs, compounded with a lack of respect for facts, in the image some people present, not just of the Conservative Party, but of Conservative voters too.

We, not the Party Apparat, are the grass roots Tories whose honesty and integrity Richard Bridge denies, and most of us have never been within twenty miles of Eton.

In point of fact, Tony Blair's offspring went to private school. Will Richard want them debarred from standing as MPs I wonder?

Don T.