MP Watch...

Four months in and my local MP, Dawn Butler, still hasn’t replied to my letter asking her about EDM 595 on the Serious Fraud Office Investigation into the Al Yamamah Military Contract.

So I’ve dropped her an email in the hope that this will not get ‘lost in the post’! So far more than 100 MPs have signed up to this Early Day Motion to get the inquiry reopened but Ms Butler’s name is not on the list.

So maybe she thinks large-scale corruption and bribery to the tune of an alleged £1billion is OK as long as it tops up the national coffers.

Let’s hope not, eh, because she seems to have a strong sense of moral justice when it comes to marking the abolition of the slave trade and trying to defend local NHS hospital cuts. So let’s hope I’m not doing her a disservice…