IHAVE crossed swords with Mr J Pilkington on many topics but find myself in complete agreement with his latest remarks (Letters, January 4).

The Racial Equality Council is an industry, albeit a non-profit making industry, and is kept going by the personnel who benefit mostly therefrom.

Many of the cases it backs are so bigoted and one sided that it makes a mockery of the scheme as it was envisaged at its conception - for instance, that of the man who got £30,000 for being dubbed an "Irish prat."

Those allotting our money, Mr Pilkington, are doing it for one reason, and one reason only. They are in good jobs, not a public service, and mean to retain them.

H RAWCLIFFE, Grasmere Avenue, Lammack, Blackburn.

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