Sir - Tom Edwards was good enough to correct my assertion that Worcester had about the same population as the American city of Seattle (The Source10/04/15). I was wrong. Perhaps I was distracted by the 100,000 votes socialist City Council member Kshama Sawant received when elected in 2013.

And just to mention an estimated 45,000 Seattle workers have just had a pay rise fought for by councillor Sawant to take them to $15 per hour, quick work compared to our politicians.

Pete McNally,

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition