Julie Morgan

 

  Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Cardiff North

 

LETTER IN THE ECHO

Viewpoints, February 10th 2010

 

Morgan has fought for us

 

 

I wish to state at the outset that I do not support any one political party.

 

There are many excellent MPs throughout the country who listen to their constituents and work very hard for them.

 

One such MP is Julie Morgan, MP for Cardiff North, who really does work hard for her constituents.

 

Julie Morgan has one of the lowest expenses claims in the House of Commons and has campaigned on issues that matter to local people like the buses.

 

No one can be happy about the plight of pensioners in the current climate. Julie has taken every opportunity at her disposal to bring this to the notice of Parliament.

 

Over the past five years, I have attended two lobbies of Parliament to bring to the fore the plight of pensioners, while representing the National Pensioners Convention.

 

Out of all the Cardiff MPs, Julie Morgan was the only one who attended the lobby on both occasions.

 

Figures produced by Age Concern and the NPC show that there are now one in four pensioners living below the fuel poverty line, while there are more than three million pensioners living below the poverty line.

 

My concern is for the voting population of Cardiff North, the majority of whom are pensioners.

 

I think the time has come when electors should be seriously thinking of voting for the person rather than the party, so that irrespective of which party is returned to office, we will have an MP to represent our community.

 

 

John C. Hughes

Whitchurch, Cardiff