DAVID MILIBAND is the elected Labour MP for South Shields.

I hope, therefore, that the £1,000 per week he is to receive from Sunderland Football Club will be donated to help the unemployed.

He also has another job “mentoring” political students at his old school, Haverstock, so I would also expect him to donate this salary to the unemployment situation in South Shields.

At least South Shields would feel some benefit from their own Member of Parliament. He is, after all, a socialist – or is he?

Mrs P Rees, Darlington.