A meaner Umunna

HOW condescending of Chuka Umunna to label Ukip voters ‘illiterate’ because we can’t perform four basic tasks on a computer.

I’m 90 and struggle with my desktop computer, having had to change from my laptop due to failing eyesight.

My favourite Windows XP is no longer for sale, and although I know it’s obsolete, it was what I was used to and Windows 7, its replacement, only

does the same things in a more roundabout way.

I have arthritic fingers, so I can’t write by hand — but I was considered clever enough to service the radio telephone sets and early radar carried by our planes in the Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War. We did a course on electrical theory at Battersea Poly in seven months. It probably takes three years now.

I find talking about the Spitfire — j ust one of the planes I worked on — of great interest to the young. But when I go shopping, I find the same young who were educated by computer can’t add up.

A broadband connection is not cheap, especially f or pensioners. The Labour Party seems to favour the well-heeled.

Ukip voters might be old, poor and live in the country with no broadband connection, but a quarter of the money Labour spent fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could have been used to give us all access to modern toys.

I’m fed up with being lectured t o by people l i ke Chuka Umunna. PAMELA BRICKMAN, Bridport,

Dorset.