Letter: It's people the Tories dump on the streets

Sir: I feel compelled to add a few instances to the long and deeply moving letter from Graham and Eleanor Wright (24 March) contrasting today's world with pre-Conservative union troubles.

Today the "piles of rotting rubbish" that one trips over in the street consist merely of discarded people, not (as then) of household waste. (To be fair, the household waste did not ask us for money.)

London Transport will not be clear whether the Wrights' claim that "state monopolies have crumbled" alludes to the physical state of the system or to the fact that disruption of service is no longer a trades-union monopoly but has been made "stable and competent" on a daily basis in the good cause of keeping the "lowest basic tax rate" down.

C CURRIE

London N17