• HAVING joined the Labour Party in Camden in the 1970s, I am baffled at the party today.

I have just received an invitation to buy a raffle ticket with a prize of an electric car or a large sum of money. I thought the policy was to reduce cars – at least in London.

The cost of a ticket is £2. Some people at our local food bank have less than this to live on a day and this is before the massive increase in council rents, council tax, energy bills and service charges in April.

Are the organisers of this raffle completely oblivious of the hardships many of our residents are suffering? Or don’t they care.

Some of us gave Christmas presents to our friends and relatives in the form of donations to charities. One of mine was a piglet to a charity in a third world country apparently. Why not offer this type of prize, a donation to say a homeless or mental health charity?

This raffle again shows just out of touch the Labour Party is now compared with that which I joined almost half a century ago.

We know that Labour Party members and councillors in Camden who have the temerity to criticise the party are deselected or expelled. There have been two rather half-hearted attempts to do this to me already. Will there now be a third?

MICK FARRANT, NW5