AFTER reading the article "Rivals given green poser" (Advertiser, April 11), there is only one Green Party and Liberal Democrat prospective Parliamentary candidate Mike Ashall is not it.

Or has he forgotten what party he is standing for?

Where was Mr Ashall and his party in 1999 when local authorities registered 166,760 households as homeless in England? In the same year, 770,000 houses lay empty, over four times as many homeless families, as empty houses stood around to be vandalised - a drain on public services.

A quarter of these houses would have re-housed these families. Instead families were put in hotels and bed and breakfast, pushing everyone's council tax even higher.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats worked together at national and county level while this deprivation went on, not to mention putting up refugees at the expense of council taxpayers and our own homeless.

The Green Party has been campaigning about cutting CO2 emissions since the early 1990s.

Where has Mr Ashall been these last 10 years?

How would a man who drives around in a car be aware of all the disruption in Redditch since the bus station was knocked down and in standing in the rain at a bus stop waiting for a bus?

Who raised awareness of the dangers of car emissions and the need for recycling facilities in towns and cities in the first place?

Who also wanted to put a penny on our tax to improve the education facilities, then with their Labour-Liberal Democrat pact closed most of the schools in Redditch, the "merging" causing total chaos for the children of this town, only to have builders eyeing up school land with greedy eyes?

Richard K Armstrong

Redditch Green Party

Linton Close

Winyates