• I HAD two uncles who did not survive to be “a burden on the NHS’’ or become the “selfish short-sighted old’’ as Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne described us in a newspaper a while back.

One uncle’s grave is in a British submarine at the bottom of the Mediter­ranean Sea, the other is buried in Italy at the Anzio beachhead, a terrible battle during the Italian campaign.

BOB DAVENPORT, WC1