ON commentary, Michael Atherton, ex-England cricket captain, considered it interesting that Jonny Bairstow up to the end of April had only played three days cricket.

At this point I laughed out loud.

Instead of being realistic and stating how ridiculous this situation was, he adopted the benign attitude of someone not wishing to have his card marked by someone at Lord’s.

The perfect example of someone knowing which side his bread is buttered.

Peter Rickaby, West Park, Selby

Thank you for election efforts

May I use your letters page to send thanks to everyone who voted Labour in the county elections.

Thanks also go to all who leafleted or door-knocked for the party.

We bucked the national trend to retain one seat here and three in Scarborough. And just a handful more votes would have seen us keep both seats in Selby and Barlby division.

As it turned out we lost a very experienced councillor in Steve Shaw Wright.

I’m personally humbled and honoured by the support shown in me.

I already have several cases on-going, and will continue to fight for ring-fenced funding of a roundabout on Bawtry Road before any more development takes place.

Thank you.

Cllr Stephanie Duckett, North Yorks. C.C. – Selby and Barlby,

Highfield Crescent, Barlby, Selby

Corbyn is a puppet for Momentum

Richard Bridge (Letters, May 8) says that Diane Abbott didn’t do the progressive cause many favours when she didn’t know her subject. That would be the cause of John McDonald, Shadow Chancellor and Marxist, Len McCluskey, leader of Unite Union, recently elected on a turn out of 12 per cent and on a salary of £140,000 a year, and Momentum, a hard left-wing organisation, founded just four weeks after Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour party.

Momentum want to deselect any sitting Labour MP who doesn’t agree with them. Jeremy Corbyn is a puppet on a string for them.

How would a May government deliver a hard undemocratic Brexit that would put millions of children in poverty and kill off the NHS, Mr Bridge? Jeremy Corbyn, sorry, Momentum would do that all on its own.

Keith Thornton, De Grey Place, Bishopthorpe, York

My reasons for rejecting Labour

Last week your correspondence pages were full of reasons why we should reject the Conservatives.

Do you want a Prime Minister who wants to send our nuclear deterrent to sea with no deterrents and a spend and tax regime that will send us back to being the poor man of Europe? Do you want a Chancellor who called the IRA ‘heroes’ at the height of their killing spree – he later apologised, of course he would, but he’d already said it?

If the Tories come out on top we have a disjointed opposition who don’t like their leader, will leave the door open for Salmond and Sturgeon to prattle on about independence whilst failing to run Scotland how it deserves to be run.

Keith Isaac, Byron Drive, York

It’s May and her Darling Buddies

I wonder if we can look forward to a new angle on the wise words of May and her Darling Buddies. Just for a bit of fun try telling us how good you’re going to be rather than how bad the rest could be.

Richard Bowen, Farrar Street, York