Madam, Whilst having no particular liking for the BNP I do feel that the intemperate remarks of your recent correspondents must be challenged.
Looked at objectively, a private group booked a party at the Chase Hotel, as they were perfectly entitled to do, hoping, no doubt, to keep themselves to themselves. Any disruption to other guests and to Ross was due entirely to those individuals who turned up intent on disrupting the event. To call for a boycott of the Chase Hotel, a commercial concern, for accepting this booking defies belief: how will ruining a local business and putting more people on the dole help anyone? It is, frankly, indefensible to declare a belief in free speech and then state an intention to boycott an organisation for the crime of trading with people of whom the writer disapproves. Such inconsistencies and unappealing self-righteousness can only, in my view, benefit the very party your correspondents so vehemently oppose.
John Rowlands, Ross