SIR – Terry Tordoff (Letters, November 7, 2011) suggests that Jesus would have gone ‘among the inhabitants of the tented protest camps to give them His blessing’.

I think, however, He would remember His words in Matthew 7:5 where He says: ‘Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brothers.”

I suspect that most of Mr Tordoff’s unwashed rabble were in truth self-indulgent, middle class moaners doing nothing useful yet expecting their prayers – ‘give us this day our daily bread’ – to be answered by those lesser souls who keep our country running.

Earlier this month, for example, on the M5 in Somerset, firemen, policemen, ambulance crew, doctors, nurses and highway repair teams arrived within minutes.

Had they instead been sitting around in tents complaining about the iniquities of the banks, more lives would have been lost, the injured left untreated and the motorway kept closed.

Protests have their place, but sadly most are carried out by selfish individuals who believe that they have an insight which sets them apart from the majority and are thus entitled to privileges which we – the real great unwashed – have no right to expect.

Brian Holmans, Langley Road, Bingley