SIR – What a surprise – MP Kris Hopkins has proposed that Keighley and Ilkley should separate from Bradford MDC (T&A, January 19).

After all, Mr Hopkins has spent the last few years spearheading Bradford ‘degeneration’ – hardly surprising, then, that he doesn’t want to continue overseeing the wasteland that is now Bradford.

What amazes me more, though, is the fact that anybody actually voted for him.

Lucky, then, that people have such small memories, or maybe he promised the people of Keighley he’d release them from the huge Bradford mess he created?

Jason Smith, UKIP Bradford chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury