GEORGE Osborne has used your columns to attempt to justify being editor of the London Evening Standard while still representing us as MP .

For 16 years Mr Osborne has been a virtual MP, not a visible one, unlike Martin Bell who was often to be met in the queue at Booths or in the street.

In his 16 years as our MP, I made one appeal for help from Mr Osborne, when the DVLA failed to respond to medical confirmation that I was fit to drive. Their silence jeopardised my voluntary unpaid work as a welfare caseworker for SSAFA Forces Help.

That appeal for help went unanswered until after DVLA had renewed my driving licence. The response came not from Mr Osborne, but from a minion in his office.

I would advise readers to look online and read Mr Osborne’s maiden speech in the Commons. It was full of empty rhetoric about ‘as politicians we are not listening to the people, and we must heed their concerns and deliver’.

As our new MP for Tatton, Mr Osborne chose a northern address far away from his constituents, in the hills above Macclesfield. To justify his job with the Standard he said he is a Londoner.

I felt deeply insulted to read Mr Osborne linking his name with that of C P Scott, the greatest journalist this nation has produced. Scott was a moral force in world politics. Mr Osborne is seen by many as an ambitious, arrogant, power-hungry politician.

What has Mr Osborne done for Knutsford? Or Tatton?

Knutsford has grubby, potholed streets and roads like most of Britain.

Mr Osborne is convinced that spending £50 billion on HS2 is better value than restoring British roads in towns and villages to the high, traffic-jam-free standard they were when we joined his beloved common market.

Mr Osborne claims he will use his influence as editor of the London Evening Standard to help shape the future of the UK.

That newspaper is owned by a Russian oligarch. Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair’s spin doctor, has just taken on the job as editorat- large of a new EU newspaper, the New European, proclaiming similar objectives. All are pro-EU, and anti-Brexit.

Readers of your newspaper should ask themselves if Mr Osborne, now taking on his sixth job, and with his millionaire background, is a fit person to represent the interests of a nation which voted democratically to restore sovereignty to the people.

We are living in a dangerous world, and politics is not a game. It affects the lives of real, ordinary people, like you and me.

Don Briggs Knutsford