I wrote to Hove MP Ivor Caplin nine times in seven months asking about his support for the war in Iraq and only received a reply once I reported his unwillingness to respond to Labour's head office.

His reply consisted of a photocopy of an article he had written in favour of the war - an article that was based on arguments that events (and most political observers) had already largely discredited long before he sent it to me.

Mr Caplin supported a war that the majority of legal experts agree was illegal and based on flawed evidence.

He claimed moral justification while he belongs to - and does not speak out against - a governing party that supports dictatorships in many parts of the world, including an Uzbekistan government that boils its opponents alive.

Mr Caplin lost a lot of respect when he claimed it was morally right to depose of Saddam Hussein while failing to condemn his Government's support of human rights abuses the world over.

It shows a strange perception of right and wrong that we are called "yobs" because we find it morally offensive that a man such is this claims to be representing us.

-Steve George, Hove