Dear Editor

Mr Norman’s voting record speaks for itself as a loyal MP who puts party first. The fiasco of the last two years indicates yet again the need for drastic overhaul of our archaic and dysfunctional electoral system:  in some 50 years of voting in parliamentary elections, my vote has never, ever, counted for anything. Mr Norman finds this acceptable: I do not.

As a loyal party member, he supports the continuing privatisation of our public services in the name of democracy and ‘efficiency’. As our National Health Service is progressively sold off to join other public utilities in private hands, and the quasi-privatised academy schools program spreads, experienced doctors and teachers quit at the earliest opportunity as they struggle to cope with the stress and misery of being micro –managed to fulfil often spurious, ill-conceived and asinine targets.

As a loyal party member, and in the name of ‘democracy’, Mr Norman thus believes paradoxically in ever increasing state control.  As well as denying our younger generation the vast benefits and security of EU membership, they are pressurised from infancy with a narrow, straight-jacket curriculum, delivered by stressed and disillusioned teachers, with skewed and increasingly meaningless examination results. The state then requires students to incur a vast level of personal debt to acquire what is often a worthless degree.

As a loyal party member Mr Norman is happy to go along with this? I, for one, am not.

Rob Lucas

Ross-on-Wye