By Isle of Wight Observer
Dear Editor,
I have eventually tracked down the leaflet which R C Thomas found insulting his doormat (Island Soapbox, Feb 21). It does appear to be concerned largely with potholes: Mr Thomas has enlarged its message somewhat by his attack on public sector workers, and I’m sure we’ll all take on board that he doesn’t like trade unions. Pity, that, when all the services on which he will depend are provided by them, from refuse collection to medical provision.
Quite why he received two copies of this leaflet, when one would have been quite enough to put him off his breakfast, I don’t know.
Perhaps they got stuck together in their deliverer’s hot little hand; or perhaps it was felt that to get any message through to this recipient, it needed to be repeated?
Either way – party political leaflets are very rarely likely to be great literature; I expect Mr Thomas complains in letters to editors about every one he receives, no? No. Probably not. Just Labour ones, I expect. Do remember though, Mr Thomas: a cat can look at a king, as someone with greater literary abilities once wrote. A political party you don’t like can send you a leaflet. It’s rarely worth getting quite so excited about it.
Robert Jones, Niton Undercliff