LABOUR supporter Graham Giles (Letters, November 3) gets all indignant over a mildly politically incorrect comment by Conservative party leader David Cameron, which only goes to show that he (Dr Giles) should get out more.
Dr Giles also denounces prejudice in all its forms, but here he is precisely wrong. As Edmund Burke argued in his Reflections on the Revolution in France, life would become intolerable if we had to think everything through from first principles. If common sense tells you that we should be a self-governing country, or that longer sentences would cut crime, that is because we are prejudiced.
However, I forgive Dr Giles for not understanding the nature of concepts like prejudice if only because of the entertainment value of his wonderfully earnest and po-faced letter. A real cracker!
COLIN SMITH, Totton branch, New Forest East Conservatives.
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