3:42pm Thursday 25th January 2007
Your readers must be perplexed at Battersea MP Martin Linton's priorities when it comes to the real issues facing his constituents.
Battersea's invisible man is quick to condemn the council decision to cut funding for Battersea Arts Centre, but strangely he maintains a trappist-like silence on NHS plans to shut the Bolingbroke Hospital.
While the possible closure of a theatre may be regrettable - the loss of a local community hospital must be of far greater importance to his constituents. Not, it seems, to Mr Linton.
Instead of pressing health ministers to abandon these foolish proposals or going on the record to say he is against the closure and will fight against it, Mr Linton says nothing.
He must be the only MP in the whole country who appears to be in favour of a hospital closure in his constituency.
Even ministers, with jobs to lose and careers to think of, have come out fighting against plans to close their local hospitals.
In fact as far as I can recall, the only Bolingbroke Mr Linton has ever fought to save was a local pub of that name a few years ago.
Councillor James Cousins Members' Room.
Wandsworth Town Hall
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