Was Alan Nunn's accusation of political parties "promoting sexual permissiveness as a political objective" (Letters, April 2) some kind of belated April Fool's joke?

Mr Nunn seemed to deplore the fact that even the Tories have finally woken up to what most people have recognised for decades: We live in a diverse, multicultural society and the Parliamentary composition of all political parties does little to reflect this.

For example, more than half the UK's population is female and yet less than ten per cent of women are MPs.

Presumably, Mr Nunn's preference would be for all electoral candidates to be exclusively white, middle-class, heterosexual, Church of England males.

Mr Nunn concluded by stating that unless political parties represent his point of view - bigoted, so-called Christian family values - fewer of his fellow citizens would vote.

Perhaps Mr Nunn should ask himself why it is, if his family values are so popular, Church congregations continue to fall so rapidly?

-Craig Turton, Dean Gardens, Portslade