Letter: End of the peers?

Sir: I work as a cleaner, barmaid and housewife and only just make ends meet. No one can accuse me of having a vested interest in wealth, privilege, status and power. However, hereditary peers in the House of Lords are part of my history, my culture, my tradition, my country and my safeguard against extremism.

If aspects of our history are to be exterminated just because their origins are "lost in the mists of time", let's go the whole way and make Stonehenge into a multi-storey car park.

In twenty years' time the present ideas of political correctness may be obsolete, and we will have lost part of our splendid and unique tradition.