• MEG Howarth raises some important points about democracy, (Challenge the myths & party-political agendas, March 12).

Our Islington Labour councillors have recently started emphasising the importance of being born and bred locally as the key to the legitimacy of our views.

We are asked to go home, as Theresa May former Tory prime minister did, if we are born in the wrong place.

Now the wrong place is even outside the boundaries of Islington and, in one case, the boundaries of Highbury.

Perhaps our Islington Labour councillors could answer the following questions.

How does a baby have any choice about where she or he is born?

Doesn’t that depend on where its mother is at the time of giving birth?

Is the baby then marked forever?

Once born, how does a small child have any choice about where she or he is brought up?

Should a child run off just after birth and go and live where she or he foresees as its eventual home and stay there forever?

Or should that flight happen a bit later – and at what age?

Thanks Islington Labour councillors.

Regards from someone born in one place and brought up in another (and eventually living in Islington) as my family moved for work.

You’ve got that councillors? Moved for work because there was no money. Should I forge my birth certificate next time I answer a planning application?

ANITA FRIZZARIN
Wedmore Gardens, N19