ON BEHALF of every long-haired, earringed, unemployed person, I would like to reply to John Blunt's comments (LET, February 21).

Does this right-wing bigot understand what it is like living on £46 per week on the dole?

Does he know what it is like working for £2.50 per hour?

No, I don't think he does. So I suggest he shuts up.

It is hard enough trying to live on the dole without listening to such rubbish.

I am sick and tired of watching right-wing short-haired, suited scum selling off England's assets for their own greed and using a smart cover to mask their evil ways.

This is the 1990s - long hair etc. has been with us for a long time.

Jesus Christ had long hair. Do John Blunt's comments also apply to him?

What right has he to place employers on a pedestal when some of them are not fit to clean the boots of their employees?

T SHARP, Willows Street, Accrington.

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