NOW that the Christian festive season is over and done with for another year, may I draw the attention of that parasitical entity, the 'politically correct' brigade, to the fact that during the Christmas period there was a sign in a shop window at Little Harwood (a predominantly Asian residential area of Blackburn) which wished everyone a 'Merry Christmas.'

I believe the shop is owned by Asian people and in spite of the fact that I carry as many prejudices as every other human being I would like to say to the shopkeepers 'good luck and may their God bless them.'

They have done something, just something, to negate some of the unnecessary divergences of our population which are usually generated by people who have a self-serving agenda.

ANTONY HAWORTH, Pendleside Close, Sabden, Clitheroe.