I AM writing in response to your article regarding Bromsgrove Tory MP Julie Kirkbride.

She has only attended 43 per cent of votes in the last three months and ranked 535th for attendance out of 659 MPs.

Admirably she did not put it down to family commitments.

Why then is it that our elected representative cannot be bothered to vote on issues affecting the lives of UK citizens? Is it because govern-ments have eroded British sovereignty so that the politics of Westminster are now irrelevant?

It has become obvious to most that we are being ruled by unelected commissioners in Brussels.

Ian Gregory,

Prospective Parliamentary Candidate,

UK Independence Party.