Sir Nicholas Winterton thinks he and the rest of MPs should be allowed to travel first class on trains because the other people in standard class are totally different type of people.
All these MPs are voted into office by the likes of me and you.
They are ordinary, everyday people, but once they get into office they get above their station.
They get about £69,000 a year for doing not a lot and yet moan about having to travel with other passengers in second class seats.
The people he is moaning about are most likely people who work hard all week, pay all their bills and have a job to survive.
PAUL HOWARD Brome Place Headington, Oxford l appalling snob Sir Nicholas Winterton is arguing that politicians should have first-class rail travel because he, and presumably the rest of them, regard the common herd as a “different type of person”.
Once launched firmly upon their political careers, they only rarely rub shoulders with us.
On the subject of their political hypocrisy, permit me a quotation that sums up the attitude of so-called liberals engaged in the governmental process and its many spin-offs: “Valuing diversity is a hobby for people who do not have to endure its benefits.”
Winterton, and his ilk, secretly – and his case for once, openly – no doubt consider the pursuit of equality as corruption of quality.
STEPHEN WARD, Tudor Close, Oxford
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