SIR - MP Philip Davies' outburst on asylum seekers (T&A, November 22) is absolutely disgraceful.

He knows his comments on asylum seekers are inaccurate and will lead to further attacks on and discrimination against a particularly vulnerable group in our community.

He knows asylum seekers are predominantly here because of the treatment they have had to flee from in their home countries.

As a councillor, I have had to counter many of the myths peddled by all too many sections of the media about asylum seekers and Mr Davies knows as well as I do that asylum seekers do not receive privileged treatment nor handouts from a Government that seems more interested in pandering to popular myth and prejudice than to provide safe sanctuary for people who are in fear of their lives.

I too spend a lot of my time helping people find housing and safe accommodation and the answer is not to attack the most vulnerable in our community but to work with Bradford Community Housing Trust and the Council to provide more suitable accommodation and get empty houses back into the system as quickly as possible.

Coun David Ford (Green, Heaton), Rhodes Street, Saltaire