So, as @greendrawers, I would like to say the following:

Mr Letwin is indeed an intelligent man, with many ideas of merit forging his idea of the ‘Big Society’. As a local MP he has personally helped me, and my husband, at a time of great hardship and need.

However, as a member of the Conservative Party, he also stands for many things that make for a society I do not want to be part of; many in his party would see us out of Europe, they would never have allowed equal rights to gay men and women, they would axe thousands of public sector jobs – ones that have managed to keep this county mostly insulated from the ravages of recession. Tory representatives in Europe have cosied up to some of the most right-wing, bigoted bunch imaginable who would see many of the rights that those previously considered ‘minorities’ taken away and replaced with draconian levels of what is and isn’t acceptable.

I cannot condone that in any way shape or form and therefore Mr Letwin will NEVER get my vote, regardless of his personal compassion and tireless work for this part of England’s green and pleasant land.

He is right in that ‘together we forge the kind of place we’re in’ – it’s just that some of us don’t want the kind of place where difference is marginalised, and where the bottom line is king.

If you follow me on Twitter, I re-tweeted a post from @StephenFry – a piece from The Independent about what has happened to my old borough of Hammersmith and Fulham since the Tories took over in 2006 – cut and paste this link to read http://tinyurl.com/2vkhwaw For me, it says everything that Mr Letwin doesn’t about his ‘Big Society’.