Scarlet standards

Published: 25th March 2010

• HOW nauseating it was to read in the report on the funeral of Michael Foot (March 18), that Lord Kinnock led the singing of The Red Flag “though cowards flinch and traitors sneer”.
These words must have stuck in the throats of Lord Kinnock, together with his fellow architects of Margaret Thatcher’s acclaimed greatest achievement: “New Labour.”
Removal of Clause IV from the constitution of the Labour Party, one would have thought, would result in the obvious removal of that working class hymn.
What a bunch they are; these unprincipled, democratically elected, servants of the people of this country, “who cringe before the rich man’s frown – and haul the sacred emblem down”.
Just so long as 90 per cent of the world’s wealth remains in the hands and control of 10 per cent of the population of this globe, and there are millions of children across the world, starving and living in poverty, with no drinking water, (then) my flag stays red, as it has been for the past 65 years. It will remain so, until I leave this world of grossly undivided wealth, corporate exploitation and greed, and take my one-way trip to Golders Green Crematorium.
KEN SAVAGE
Belsize Park, NW3