Letter: Do Cameron and Clegg really listen to this music?

Letter: Recently in the media there was a good deal of self-righteous indignation about Nick Clegg choosing as his luxury on Desert Island Discs "a stash of cigarettes".

But as far as I know, not a dicky bird was said about his dreadful choice of records, which was no better than David Cameron's in 2006.

Between them they picked such giants of modern music as Radiohead, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Smiths, REM, The Killers and Pink Floyd. Oh yes, and (in Cameron's case) Benny Hill!

Both these guys were born into privilege (particularly Cameron), both were expensively and privately educated, both went to one of our top two universities and both regularly rub shoulders with other highly educated people, from whom they surely learn much.

Yet the music they chose to listen to repeatedly, perhaps for years marooned on a desert island, was no better than what would be selected by an average 15-year-old boy or girl.

Even allowing for the fact that politicians suck up to the electorate, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Sidney Evans

Chirk