A leaflet was delivered to my door with a message from the Conservative MP for South Dorset, Richard Drax.

It bore the mysterious heading: ‘Fighting to get our country back’.

Which was pretty cool when, as I understand it, Mr Drax and a few similar chums already own large chunks of our country.

Yet I applaud the sentiment and have a suggestion to make.

It is that Mr Drax should donate his large estates in Dorset to the people of the county in perpetuity.

The resultant income would be of real help to the many local families trying to make ends meet this Christmas.

Then we really would be getting a bit of our country back.

Dr Alan Chedzoy

Spa Road

Weymouth