I WAS interested to read that my MP, Julie Hilling, is campaigning for the National Health Service in Bolton, supporting the shadow Minister for Health. They can campaign for all their worth but if the Trans-Atlantic Trade Agreement goes through with Common Market backing it will mean that we will not have a national health service because it will be privatised.

The Labour Party is betraying the people of this town and the country by not demanding that this legislation has no place in the UK and they should make it clear that they will not, repeat, not accept it.

This legislation will only enslave the people of this country; it will do nothing but benefit big business. It will see more people on the minimum wage and this will become the norm for everybody. I am sick and tired of the Labour Party refusing to demand a debate on this subject. Julie Hilling should let her constituents know where she stands on this — is she in favour or against it? No sitting on the fence please.

Vince Cable’s letter to MPs ensures that there is not a cigarette paper to put between them when discussing the Trans-Atlantic Trade Agreement. It's a complete sell out to the corporate corporations of the world and our MPs should be ashamed of themselves. I would ask everybody to go to the website of War on Want and just learn how dire this agreement is.

I wish to thank Julie Hilling for writing to the Department of Communities and Local Governments about the Infrastructure Bill; this is a little bit of legislation with potentially massive repercussions currently going through Parliaments as the Infrastructure Bill. Julie tells me the minister says we have nothing to worry about; according to the minister it's only a simplification of the planning system. I disagree. I believe this will be a disaster for our green spaces and again big business, multinationals and billionaires will prosper very nicely out of land which belongs to the state which, therefore, actually belongs to the nation, to you and me. They will sell off.

Again is Julie Hilling in favour of the infrastructure bill or is she against it? No sitting on the fence, yes or no then we will know whether she is in favour of supporting the hard-working families of her constituency or not.

Ian Greenhalgh

Smithills,

Bolton