Lindsey Hall

• IF Conservative candidate Lindsey Hall is elected as Member of Parliament for Westminster North next week, I wonder if she will continue as she has whilst a councillor on Westminster City Council?

On their website, under “Surgery details”, it says: “No formal surgery is held.” This contrasts greatly with Karen Buck, who as our MP has held regular surgeries and dealt with thousands of cases for residents every year.

Presumably Mrs Hall feels no need to make herself accessible.

In a letter to residents, she writes that “every vote cast for me will strengthen Theresa May’s hand in the Brexit negotiations”. Yet the European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, has referred to such theories as “nonsensical” and an “irrelevance” to those sitting around the table in Brussels.

Hall goes on to say that “there is no point for your political representation to be on the sidelines”, “disrupting progress”.

These words sound as if they come not from Hall, but from the autocratic voice of Theresa May – or is it Paul Dacre, the editor of the Daily Mail, who wishes to “crush the saboteurs”?

A huge number of local residents already feel they are on the sidelines, and that if the Conservatives stand for progress (surely an oxymoron in itself?), then we would welcome any disruption.

To disrupt this Tory “progress” on NHS waiting times, social housing and cuts to local schools, I would urge readers to vote for Labour’s Karen Buck and ensure that a hard Brexit is not simply waved through by May’s minions.

Those of us on the sidelines in Westminster North need representation.

THEO MORGAN
Sutherland Avenue, W9