Karen Buck: An apology

Dear Karen,

We hope you are well.

As a rule, we try to avoid using this website to go in for a running critique of you, as our local MP. To be honest it's a bit boring and we only tend to see you once or twice a year anyway up here in Maida Vale. Instead, we prefer to concentrate on actually helping local residents to solve their problems and issues.

A few days ago, however, you really got us. It was only a few weeks ago that you were pledging whole-hearted support for our local Post Office on Formosa Street, and you accepted a huge 2,000 signature petition organised by our mutual friends at Paddington Waterways.

And then on 19 March you had the chance to suspend the current programme of closures, including the one in Formosa Street. You could have voted in the Commons for just such a motion. And you failed. Totally and utterly. Not only that, but you voted against suspending the closure programme.

And we've been waiting until now for the reason why. And we've waited and waited and waited. Last week we saw a mumble from you in the local press which muttered something about it being a "Conservative motion". And since then, nothing.

So, Karen: an apology. At one time we thought you might have some principles. Sadly, we were wrong. In fact, it seems that you have completely forgotten about why you were elected in the first place.

Not good enough.

Alastair, Jan and Lee