SIR - Reading that Philip Davies MP is tabling an amendment to the government's Local Government and Public Involvement Bill, calling for the scrapping of the Standards Board of England, made me realise just how out of touch with local issues Mr Davies appears to be.

As the elected MP, I would have thought Mr Davies's time would have been better spent pushing for stricter controls to be applied to our local councillors.

It is all well and good Mr Davies saying the electorate can decide and vote out councillors who they believe have misbehaved whilst in public office.

If Mr Davies's amendment became law, areas of Bradford could still be represented by paedophiles, people who pervert the course of justice, councillors who leave the country for months on end and councillors who send their allowances to other parts of the world.

Any one of these could, under Mr Davies's plans, carry on with this type of behaviour for up to four years before the voting public have a chance to defeat them at the polls.

I for one do not want my local councillor speaking for me from a prison cell.

A E Stone, Fairhaven Green, Bradford