Letter: Yearning for a new MP

Sir: I am writing to thank David Aaronovitch ("The Diva from Hell", 3 May) for his pointed parody of our dreadful Conservative MP for Gravesham, Mr Jacques Arnold.

I do not wish to make a party point, but, as a resident of Gravesham, I increasingly depair at being represented by a man who simply shouts, bays, and whines, and who sits in the Commons like a malign schoolboy at one of the rear desks.

Gravesham is an increasingly fine borough, and I crave an early election in the hope that we can replace Mr Arnold with a more worthy representative possessing at least some dignity and gravitas.

Professor Philip Stott

Gravesend, Kent