I AM a member of the Knutsford Conservative Party, and I have to admit I have, until recently, been very happy with George Osborne as our MP.

But now I am in a dilemma!

Having read the letter from Mabel Taylor in last week’s Guardian, I realise my satisfaction and indeed admiration for George has all been misplaced.

I was not lucky enough to have a grandfather who understood the real tasks and duties of being the Tatton MP and so have only just learned the job is, in fact “money for old rope”.

I confess, to my shame that I have been completely taken in by the so called George Osborne MP.

I am ashamed that I misread him as a person of genuine political passion when, he became youngest Tory MP in 2001.

I realise now, that it was because the Tatton MP’s job is so easy.

With my new insight, I assume he took up the thankless task of shadow chancellor to relieve his boredom.

With the even more thankless task of Chancellor ...well, this must have been particularly easy in the harmonious atmosphere of a coalition rather than within a majority government.

The implacable opposition he faced from many national and international bodies obviously made it relatively simple to stick to his guns.

And when they finally did admit he had got many things right, clearly his only motivation was future city jobs for himself.

It is a deeply disturbing that he has political friends - friends who shamelessly trusted him with high office.

How much better if he declined the Prime Minister and leader of his party, and instead, had sat regularly and mute in The Commons, like so many other outstanding constituency MP I thought (at the time) that our MP’s suggestions to the boundary commission were sensible and fair.

I now see that his common sense and high profile position are, ‘a recipe for disaster’, guaranteed to have fed the ‘indifference’ that Mrs Taylor has been informed of by the Boundary Commission, amazingly well in advance of their final report.

It is obvious if he really cared….

he should have said nothing.

Fortified by the certainty we will soon lose our constituency and with it this clearly deficient MP I look forward to having a proper MP like that nice Mr Hamilton who never sullied himself with high office or any other self-seeking nonsense.

Stephen Falder Knutsford