THE views of the two letter writers on asylum seekers (EA, July 5) remind me of the 1930s. Mosley's thugs were beating up people, throwing old men through shop windows and generally being as unpleasant as the Hitler he so admired.

I recently spent a few days in hospital in Oxford. The treatment was swift and excellent and, guess what, about half the staff medical, nursing and cleaning were from other countries. Without them the National Health Service would collapse. They work and pay taxes, as I have done all my working life. Many have been made refugees and had to flee for their lives because of conditions created by powerful invaders.

There is not a single fact in either of the letters. During Thatcher's rundown of hospitals I don't remember either of them raising a voice in protest. My husband's last days were a misery then. Nothing to do with refugees or asylum seekers. I kept a diary at the time.

A little knowledge and compassion. Didn't they teach history at Commonweal?

A LUBIN

Brunswick Street

Swindon