SO in spite of all the free publicity given to the Respect party, including three letters in five days from the extreme left advertising it, less than three dozen people (or, "well over 30" as Chris Titley puts it) turned up to hear George Galloway.

Even the star attraction, Mrs Gentle, refusing to allow herself to be used as a political pawn by the left, didn't turn up.

Even you must now realise that your readers are sick of your left-wing bias. Could it that Chris Titley has some say as to which readers letters are printed and which aren't?

Derek M Martin,

Fulford Road,

York.

Updated: 09:25 Tuesday, October 12, 2004