Intolerance of the Left

DOMINIC SANDBROOK’S column (‘intolerance, bigotry and the march of the fascist Left’) mirrored my experience of the past 12 years as an activist for Ukip.

This has been going on for years. Posters defaced with swastikas, removed or painted over, i have been called out by the police to replace a poster that was racially defaced which was on private land next to a primary school.

Because i had a Ukip poster in my car, human excrement was plastered all over the bonnet.

Canvassing used to be enjoyable meeting and debating with people. no longer.

Let’s get back to freedom of speech and thought without the thugs and bully boys and make general elections civil again

TERRY COMBER, Chairman, North Norfolk ukip. in The early eighties i was the West Midlands regional secretary of the largest civil service union, the Civil and Public Services association, which was then dominated by the Trotskyist Militant Tendency (at that time supported by the current Unite general secretary and paymaster of the Labour Party, Len McCluskey).

as in the case of Conservative MP Sheryll Murray, i, despicably, had my name associated with the nazis.

Posters depicting me as the notorious reinhard Heydrich, in full nazi uniform, were prominently displayed in the Brighton Centre during the union annual conference

in 1982 because of my opposition to an extreme Left-wing takeover of the union. The crude message was that I deserved to be hung out to dry.

Fear and intimidation were the modus operandi of the fascist Left in the eighties — and the same tactics still operate today.

however, unlike in the eighties, the Labour Party is now in the iron grip of the hard-Left which believes that the party is tantalisingly close to getting the keys to No 10 Downing Street.

This is why there is a concerted effort to undermine the Tory Party, with black propaganda, industrial unrest and mass street protests, in an attempt to force another General election.

Clem attlee, the great leader of the 1945 Labour government, would turn over in his grave at the degenerate corruption of this once-great political party, which millions of ordinary decent folk depended upon to promote and protect their interests. Peter Henrick,

Birmingham.