Glad at independent candidate choice

How different from Mr Plaskitt, who for 13 odd years was a member of the rotten Labour government, the most corrupt in the history of modern British politics.

By comparison his credentials hardly stand up against Mr Ball. It was Plaskitt who was caught with his fingers in the MPs’ expenses till. He paid back his mortgage payments with the rejoinder that it was, you’ve guessed it, an error. He also was given 500 loyalty points on an invoice for stationery paid for by the taxpayer. I asked who benefited, the taxpayer or himself? No reply. I asked who would receive the benefit from the sale of his second home paid for by us? No reply.

This is the candidate who claims to ‘know the people’s needs’, and is soft-soaping us into voting for him. He spent his time in parliament looking both ways. It is my honest opinion he now may be looking one way. Towards pocketing £60,000 of the taxpayer money. - Ronald Malone, via email.