The letter from Councillor Hugh Rayner was very amusing (‘We need fairness from our journalists’, Your Views, November 13).
To suggest that Andrew Dismore had been misrepresented and unable to defend himself, when he has a letter published in your paper almost every week, is stretching the Hendon voters’ credulity and patience too far. The letter was also interesting in omitting to mention that Mr Dismore was forced to resign from the parliamentary standards and privileges committee, where his role should have been to set an example to all MPs, a matter that did not escape the voters in 2010.
Perhaps Cllr Rayner’s letter tells us more than he realises about the state of both the Labour Party’s selection process and perhaps politics today.
The bottom line is that Andrew Dismore was rejected by the Hendon constituency by 108 votes — it’s called democracy.
The sooner both Mr Dismore and Cllr Rayner accept that, then perhaps your letters page can again be used to express the concerns and view of local people, not politicians trying to score points.
R S Mobbs
Belmont Ave, Barnet
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