Dear Mr Glen,

In your ‘View from the Commons’ in the Thursday 14 May edition of the Salisbury Journal you say that the now elected Conservative government has the opportunity to establish a fairer society for everyone willing to “do the right thing”! (Paragraph 5)

To “do the right thing” was a phrase much touted by the top Conservative candidates during the run up to the election. You now use it. Strangely, not one Conservative candidate nor any representative has had the courtesy to explain to the British people what this peculiar expression means.

What, exactly, is “the right thing”?

How will we know whether we are doing “the right thing”?

Are there to be sanctions imposed on those who are determined not to “do the right thing”?

More importantly, how will the electorate of Salisbury know that you, as their MP, are fully complying with the requirement to do “the right thing”?

I also note that Theresa May MP, along with other Conservative MPs including the Prime Minister, have referred to upholding "British values”.

What, exactly, are “British values”? Where are “British values” defined? To be British you merely need a British passport; to be English you must meet other vital criteria altogether; so do “British values” apply equally to both? And what of the Scottish, Welsh and Irish?

You will clearly see how the residents in the UK may be confused about all of this, so perhaps you could arrange for these phrases, now much repeated by Conservative politicians, yourself included, to be fully and transparently defined in standard English to enable the whole country to fully understand how they are to conduct themselves to establish a fairer society for everyone. Something we would all love to see, particularly in Salisbury!

The Salisbury electorate will be very interested to now see and read the full Conservative definitions of these phrases to which you and your colleagues regularly refer. Once we understand what they mean we can all do our best to live up to them.

Eric Hart

Salisbury