Am I bothered.

Call me old fashioned but I can’t help liking having an MP who,  I believe acts with integrity and courtesy.

Call me sentimental but I can’t help being  thankful that I have an MP, who yesterday took my daughter and her classmates to present their Send My Friend to School petition for Universal Secondary Education, to No 10, Downing Street and took the time and trouble to buy them hot chocolate at Portcullis House afterwards.

I don’t suppose the clutch of children from St Elizabeth’s School, Richmond will ever forget the day their MP, Zac Goldsmith,  bothered to introduce them to passing ministers, the ex-Home Secretary and some of the new MPs. Sky’s Polictical  Editor, Adam Boulton came over for a chat even your own Daniel Finklestein stopped to say hello in Whitehall.

Can we just let him get on with being a good constituency MP?  He must be worn out with people overlooking his achievement in winning his seat. I certainly am.

Come on Channel 4. I am used to seeing you broadcast real news - not an account of whether Mr Goldsmith spent too much on his campaign anoraks.

Mr Goldsmith’s response on Sky and BBC was an authentic and heartfelt statement of his behaviour. Such a shame Channel 4 did not give him the right to a live right to reply. He asked.

Friday, 16 July 2010 at 10:14