WITH regards to the defection of Labour councillor Helen Douglas to the Tories, only a few weeks ago she was “disappointed” at being deselected by Clifton Labour Party and informed that she could not stand for Labour in Clifton again.

As your correspondent Paul Gledhill states (Letters, September 13), the Conservatives are welcome to her.

It was only a few weeks ago she deplored the Tories regarding the bedroom tax and the way the Tories were attacking the living standards of the worse off in society; and the same few weeks that she despised the Tories for giving to the rich and taking from the poor.

In her desperate attempts to keep her office, she has defected to the party that only a few weeks ago she stated to the members of the Clifton Labour party that she despised and abhorred.

Having been a Labour councillor for Clifton some 20 years ago, I don’t always agree in the decisions they have made, but they have certainly got it right regarding (hopefully, soon to be) ex councillor Douglas.

H F Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York.