SIR – Mr Holmes (Letters, March 10) is allowing anti-socialist dogma to overwhelm his thought processes again. It does seem to happen a lot among working-class Tories and “Neo”-Lib/Dems (aka Tory-lites).

Like so many, Mr Holmes has been mesmerised with that simple Tory notion that although all men are equal – some are more equal then others.

This notion is one that the 1% have promoted over many years, through the like-minded, billionaire propagandists that own the UK mainstream media (One venomous major TV channel actually dedicates hours of programming to demonising benefits claimants). One can see the logic, as a rich, 1% elite, their lifestyles are akin to colonial plantation slave-masters, constantly lying awake at night and listening for footfall on the verandah.

Better by far to push out endless reams of propaganda: “Its all the fault of foreigners – the poor – the benefits claimants – the unions – the Labour Party – the NHS, until we have a cowed, propaganda saturated, electorate, apparently incapable of thinking logically or critically. Mr Holmes is living proof that this well tried-method still works. It’s called “Divide and Rule” by the way.

Christopher Hindle, Osterley Grove, Bradford