11 JULY 1987, Page 23

LETTERS Mortimer's politics

Sir: Hugely though I enjoyed John Mor- timer's performance on 27 June as The Man They Cannot Gag, there is, I think, a reason he may have overlooked to explain why he and his fellow writers were sub- jected to so much abuse over the political preferences which they expressed before the election.

Has he not considered the possibility that he and the rest of the pack, individual- ly and collectively, made complete Char- lies of themselves?

Michael Toner

58 Waterloo Road, Bedford