Letter: Angry on the outside

Sunday 20 December 1998 00:02 GMT

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OPINION-formers such as Joan Smith frequently insist that "good old anger" (13 December) can be vented only through mainstream party politics, ignoring the decisive role often played by pressure-group politics.

But if Joan Smith is right and we get a return to the old emphasis on party political polarisation it might make her "feel better" but I shall regard it as a sad day for the future of social, economic and political development.

KENNETH R SHAW

Woodford Green, Essex

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