SIR – Once again, Bradford’s bureaucrats have shot themselves in the foot.

While the rest of the country was digesting the results of what’s been the most fascinating election since 1945, we’ve had to wait 24 hours to find out what’s happened in our home city. And by the time we found out, Bradford would be lucky to get more in the national news than a cursory “Oh and by the way, rather late in the day, Bradford now...”

Is it any surprise that people are getting disenchanted with politics?

A month ago, I offered all the main political parties an opportunity to use cutting-edge technology to participate in an online hustings on the internet and not one of them even replied to my offer to set it up for them.

Though that opportunity has passed, I make the same offer. I’ll be running a regular politics show on Youtube, and I’m open for offers from anyone who would like to co-present it from the comfort of their own desktop. Just go to videocaroline.

wordpress.com for more information. That offer’s open to non-politicos also, by the way.

Karl Dallas, Church Green, Bradford