MICHAEL J. STOKES,
Madam, - It is to be hoped that an element of realism will return to the Parliamentary Labour Party with Pat Rabbitte's election. May I wish him well and offer him the following advice from a past leader of the British Labour Party, Harold Wilson?
"I am an optimist. But I am an optimist who takes his raincoat." - Yours, etc.,
MICHAEL J. STOKES, Willington Green, Templeogue, Dublin 6.