MPs including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry show their support for Islington Council’s ‘climate emergency’ in 2019

• NEITHER of Islington’s elected MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry have commented publicly on the imminent felling of seven mature and healthy trees at Highbury Corner’s Dixon Clark Court.

As the old adage goes, fixing climate change begins at home.

Therefore I recall with anger and disappointment the empty exhortations of our two MPs as they pledged on the town hall steps in June 2019 that they would do everything in their power to help combat the negative effects of climate change.

That was when Islington Council declared their bogus climate emergency. Empty words indeed.

Looking forward, should any Islington residents like to help us save seven magnificent Highbury trees which are due for the chop – depending on which way a High Court judge rules – please email your MP as soon as possible to urge them to ask Islington Council’s blinkered leadership to change course.

ALEX HOFFORD, N5