Comparing PM with dictator
Your letter suggesting that Mr Blair was similar to Adolf Hitler was repugnant to myself and my recently deceased father. You suggest that you were born in the 1930s or before, which I cannot believe going by your views and opinions, and your readiness to put them openly and publicly - so I assume this is so you can delude those younger than your alleged self.
In my experience of this free country, my father was born in 1919 and survived Dunkirk, as well as being a prisoner of war after being captured in Italy and spent 18 months in Stalag 11b near the Russian border before liberation.
When he came home he was happy that the Labour party won the election, as they were closest to his own ideals which he held to the end, but he always respected other views even when they were different to his own.
These views were never forced upon myself or my sister as we were allowed to make our own mind up about life, politics and our country. As chairman of the Cheshire Regiment he met Margaret Thatcher when she was PM in power, and in the local paper he stated that although he did not agree with her politics as the representative of the regiment, he showed her the greatest courtesy and that he respected her position.
Perhaps you can explain what you did during the war and why your views are so distorted to those who I knew well, and loved for their respect of other people's opinions?
Alan Chesters, Newport
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