RE: 'Blame the bosses!" (Review, March 20). Do we not envy Ms Corum's certainties (workers = good; bosses = bad)? It seems that such unreformed Marxism is not yet quite as dead as Monty Python's parrot.
It may be that, "Naturally, if one is strapped for cash, one must find the cheapest offers when shopping." Except for the truly skint, nobody is forced to exercise some human right to buy cheapest any more than the eponymous Uncle Charlie had to spend his fortune on slow horses and fast women.
Just as "naturally," however, individuals (both "workers" and "bosses") tend to pursue "self(ish) interest" – perhaps in cheap imports (from clothes to cars) or in cheap foreign holidays or second homes. So, any implication that only "the bosses" exploit foreign workers (or "export" compatriots' jobs) simply seems unreasonably biased.
In today's "property-owning democracy" millions of "workers" now also find themselves defined as "bosses," from windfall investors in privatised national utilities to building society and Co-op "members" (a rose by any other name?). Conversely, even fat-cat, crafty and disreputable company directors, by definition, "work" for shareholders, many "working class."
Such complexities demand careful thought. Attitudes like "Don't confuse me with the facts," or "Blame somebody else!" hardly help. Indeed, workers of the world unite. You may have nothing to lose but your Co-op dividend. (Of course, a bus-using, stay-at-home, "Buy British: OAP and Co-op "boss" (for 50 years), like me, would never say so. – Geoff Mead, Tidenham.