Letter: Why we should hail Swampy and friends as patriotic heroes

Sir: You have made a serious error in giving so much prominence to the tunnellers protesting against the A30 road development.

I am sure that if the under-sheriff had overstepped the accepted boundaries of behaviour, the tunnellers and their supporters would be among the first to invoke the law. But, because they do not accept the proper planning decisions achieving by following all the lengthy procedures established by Parliament, we as taxpayers have to pay the bill for them to be evicted.

One cannot pick which laws to obey and which to defy. It is nonsense for you to label these anarchic protesters heroes.

J M MURPHY

Brussels