I refer to the outrageous incident during last week's New Labour Party conference when the appointed stewards resorted to thuggery in evicting 82-year-old Walter Wolfgang.

They manhandled him because he had the audacity and insolence to consider he was entitled to express an opinion or question a politician.

This incident has confirmed my opinion of the indifference shown by politicians, both parliamentary and local, towards retired people. JOHN BULLIVANT, Leiden Road, Headington, Oxford