SIR - At a time when most politicians are a bunch of colourless and nondescript nonentities, George Galloway has been a maverick ray of sunshine on our political life in Bradford. With GG our lives have been never dull, always more exciting.

Of course, that may be a clue to why so many deserted him. On a national scale, Ed Miliband was a slightly more colourful personality than the blur that is David Cameron, and perhaps that’s why all those turkeys voted for Christmas, not discerning the butcher’s knife in his well-manicured hands.

Though many fell for Labour’s character assassination of Galloway, over eight thousand of us voted for more of the same. So I ask him: please, George, be not discouraged. Stick around and continue to campaign for better education for our kids.

There are other issues he could pay attention to. I don’t share his enthusiasm for Westfield, but as more retailers migrate to Broadway from Darley Street, who is going to speak out against the latter becoming a boarded-up desert?

And following on from his campaign to save the National Media Museum, he could head up a campaign to reinstate the Bradford International Film Festival, and turn it into the feature-film equivalent of Sheffield’s Doc/Fest, a Cannes in the Dales.

Karl Dallas, Church Green, Bradford