Meet David Orchard. You might not know it, but he is actually Mr Sue Doughty. Following the publication of this letter (right + orange text below) in the Surrey Advertiser (1 June 2007), one wonders whether Mr Orchard was appearing purely as a concerned resident of Guildford or whether he might have been taking the chance to take a pot shot at Anne Milton MP?The letter raises another serious question about his opinion on what MPs are meant to be there for. Yes they are meant to represent their local constituency and fight issues such as the Royal Surrey, which everyone knows Anne Milton has been doing. But this does not exclude MPs from talking about important national and international issues, which is another reason why they are in parliament. Perhaps Mr Orchard thinks it is inappropriate for MPs to talk about things like Iraq and events in Baghdad, after all its a very long way from Guildford?
MP’s questions are on the wrong track
I see that our MP , Anne Milton, is recorded in Hansard on May 24 as asking urgent Parliamentary questions about the redevelopment of Liverpool Lime Street mainline station, about which there is actually, for once in the history of urban redevelopment, no problem. Isn't this a bit off her patch”, and also a bit ill-timed as there was no problem there to start off with? Surely her concerns should be closer to her constituency issues, not least the Royal Surrey A&E, St Thomas of Canterbury school playing fields or — on redevelopment issues - the Civic?
Or is It that our MP wants to do a “chicken run” from Guildford, knowing that she might lose (on the new boundaries) at the next general election, and has decided to enter the current. Liverpool “Tory-free zone” by becoming selected as Tory candidate for the renowned constituency of Liverpool Exchange (home for many years to Bessie Braddock MP) where Lime Station is situated? As a local elector who was born in Liverpool and also who now lives in Shalford, I think we should be told. If the answer is as I fear, I must let my Liverpool friends know straight away so that they may expect the Tory onslaught aid injection of electoral resources that will deluge their doorsteps with “Talk of the Town” literature showing Anne cooking Scouse stew for her helpers?
DAVID ORCHARD
Or is It that our MP wants to do a “chicken run” from Guildford, knowing that she might lose (on the new boundaries) at the next general election, and has decided to enter the current. Liverpool “Tory-free zone” by becoming selected as Tory candidate for the renowned constituency of Liverpool Exchange (home for many years to Bessie Braddock MP) where Lime Station is situated? As a local elector who was born in Liverpool and also who now lives in Shalford, I think we should be told. If the answer is as I fear, I must let my Liverpool friends know straight away so that they may expect the Tory onslaught aid injection of electoral resources that will deluge their doorsteps with “Talk of the Town” literature showing Anne cooking Scouse stew for her helpers?
DAVID ORCHARD
Stonebridge Wharf,
Shalford
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