SIR – It is quite clear from recent events that Mr Galloway’s spectacular victory in last year’s by-election in Bradford West was built on unstable foundations and it now appears that the whole edifice will shortly collapse with equally spectacular effects.

I wrote to him in February of this year regarding the closure of the Salvation Army hostel in Bradford, and although admittedly the matter raised was outside his constituency, I never received a reply.

Thus far Mr Galloway’s contribution to Bradford has been at the best insignificant.

I wrote in your paper at the start of Mr Galloway’s tenure that his sojourn would be brief.

Alec Suchi, Allerton Road, Allerton