Let us remember MPs for corruption vote

MICHAEL Tully (“All quiet on the local front over sleaze vote”, Mailbox, November 10) bemoans the fact that the national press were “less than forthcoming in reporting how individual Tory MPs voted” [over Owen Paterson’s corruption].

He is wrong. In fact, the Guardian listed all MPs and how they voted on November 4, 2021, the day before Paterson resigned on November 5. This can be found at:

theguardian.com/politics/nginteractive/2021/nov/04/how-did-your-mpvote-on-the-owen-paterson-case He is right, however, to call out the Mercury for not having previously highlighted how many Tory MPs supported a device to normalise corruption in British political life. Those MPs are:

Neil O’Brien of Harborough;

Dr Luke Evans of Bosworth; Edward Argar of Charnwood; Jane Hunt of Loughborough.

Let us not get excited about this. Let us remember them. Particularly at the next General Election.

Mr Tully’s letter is sadly symptomatic of people’s apathy and failure to look beyond Tory propaganda sheets like the Mail and the Express (to which should be added The Sun and the increasingly ludicrous Telegraph).

The truth is out there and if we remain content to take our information and news from essentially rotten and distorting sources then we will be left with rotten and distorting government.

Johnson is Britain’s Trump, bent on authoritarianism and moving inexorably towards fascism, and the sooner the electorate wake up and consign his foul political party and their corrupt Brexit project to the shredder of history, the sooner we can begin to build Britain into a once again great nation.

Dr Andrew Golland, Leicester