IN THE week when there was a big article about councillor Dorcas Binns pledging to try and save services at Nailsworth Children’s Centre and two excellent letters referring to the need to keep our vital services at our two centres in Stroud, what is Neil Carmichael choosing to write about?

The Brussels attacks.

On Neil’s website it says that the education select committee was set up as a ‘powerful instrument for holding the government accountable’ therefore, as chairman of that committee, as well as our representative in parliament, surely that is what he should be giving his time to. At a recent meeting up at Parliament children’s centre he repeated several times that he was ‘keen’ to keep the services.

I found this insulting to all the dedicated staff and parents there, who work so hard for the benefit of us all. ‘Keen’? He should at least have used the word ‘committed’.

The sad fact is, everyone there was more committed than he appears to be, including the children.

Val Lock

Stroud