A letter to David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party.

I, my family, and our parents before us, have voted for the Conservative party for decades and would like to continue to do so. However, we, and I'm sure many thousands others in this area, are now faced with two major dilemmas.

Firstly, our local MP is David Heathcoat-Amory and we just can't bring ourselves to vote for this man.

He is only a part-time MP, having a further six jobs on the go. He says that his London house is his main home, although he represents and votes here in Somerset, but claims large sums of money on his "second" home here.

He is perhaps the most "anti Europe" MP in parliament but was happy to claim over £100,000 in Euros from Farm Aid last year and of course there are the famous manure, mouse poison and lettuce plants claims made against his expenses.

Don't forget his estate in Scotland.

As a pensioner, having to live on my state pension in spite of having served in the Royal Naval Submarine Service for which I get nothing,

The second dilemma we have is your promise to repeal the hunting ban. I cannot see where you are coming from with this agenda.

That a few people in this country get pleasure from animal cruelty for sport is abhorrent but for you as a possible future Prime Minister to support this is unacceptable.

Every poll indicates that the vast majority of people in this country, more than 80 per cent, are fully supportive of the hunting ban so why you think it right to overturn it I don't know.

One thing I do know is that this may gain you a few votes from the hunt supporters but it will lose you a lot more from decent, civilised, anti-cruelty people like us.

Michael J O Dearden Axbridge