I REFER to James Richard's letter headlined "Political correctness just causing racial divide" (Letters, You Say, Saturday, January 1).

The people of this country have been told to shut up by the massed ranks of politically-correct thought police.

If we Anglo-Saxons put one foot wrong, in the politically correct minefield that is now our lives, a whole army of jobsworths jump on our backs.

Everything in our nation now has to conform to excruciatingly exact codes of political correctness gone mad. I'm sick of it. These jobsworths have led us into a politically-correct dictatorship that has driven our country to the dogs.

We taxpayers have poured £10m a day, out of our wallets and into disaster relief, since Boxing Day. We don't care what colour, what religion, or what nation our money is going to.

We are responding to our instincts to help those inundated by a massive geological catastrophe. That defines what sort of people we are!

Set against that searing beacon of humanity towards those millions whose lives have been wrecked, those, who concern themselves solely with the excruciating minutia of political correctness gone mad, can be seen for the malignant microbes that they really are.

Their whole apparatus should be expunged, and sanded, and scoured, from the fabric of our nation.

We the (silent) majority wants a return to an England that is proud of its heritage; unashamed of its history, and within which we can speak our mind, as free Englishmen should.

N TAYLOR, Worcester.