HILTON Dawson claims to want to help the local farming community. It therefore seems comical that in recent weeks his priorities have been very different. Instead of calling for help for the local farming community Mr Dawson has tabled a motion in the House of Commons and called for assistance to "support cocoa producers and prevent a chocolate shortage." Surely his priorities are wrong. I don't know of any local cocoa farms... does he? He ought, primarily, to be taking up the mantle of his constituent farmers - rather than those of farmers in countries like Brazil and Mexico.
Matthew Steeples,
Abbeystead Road,
Dolphinholme.
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