Letter: 'Our MP, Caroline Nokes, has chosen to take the role'

This means she is no longer able to speak or vote on behalf of her constituents.

Few of us want to see the closure of Romsey Post Office and this would be a perfect time to ask our MP to raise the issue in parliament. 

Instead, Ms Nokes has resorted to starting a petition on this matter. Who is she petitioning? It can’t be herself.

Presumably, this is just theatrics to make up for abstaining from her role as our voice in parliament.

Such issues are the result of successive Conservative governments making steep cuts to public funding.

Their 40 per cent cuts to council funding have hit hard. This is why we also have the Conservative leader of Hampshire County Council complaining that his council is on the brink of bankruptcy and proposing to raise council tax. 

Surely as a Conservative, this is what he voted for – and now he is faced with dealing with the outcome.

Elsewhere have seen local Conservatives celebrating a U-turn of their own plans to close household recycling centres like Bunny Lane. How contrary.

Can they make their minds up? Do they want to continue their cutbacks on public services favoured by their new party leader, or are they now regretting the fruits of their decisions over the last 14 years?

No wonder our local MP has chosen to abstain from providing a voice for us in parliament. Perhaps she is worried about what she might end up voting for.

Kevin Lindley,
Abbotswood Common Road,
Romsey

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