AS the election looms ever close I’ve three socially pertinent questions for you and your party, whoever it is, regarding zero hour work contracts, the re-introduction of exit checks, and the private monoply over child care homes.

Re-zero hour contracts: Ed Miliband keeps banging on about zero hour contracts yet the Labour dominated Southampton City Council have just awarded Allied Healthcare, a company offering only zero hour contracts, its huge domiciliary care contract.

Is this not total hypocracy and what would your party do about this?

Re-the re-introduction of exit checks: When New Labour left office the number of foreign students arriving for study was five times higher than when they took office.

Many were enrolled in bogus colleges and many others who were following legitimate courses simply remained in the country, because of lack of exit checks.

As a lasting legacy of this some 177,000 foreign students (non EU) came to Britain for long-term study in 2014.

Over the same period government records reveal that only 50,000 were recorded as having actually departed. So what’s happened to the rest?

It seems to me that exit checks need to be urgently re-introduced and official qualifications from colleges withheld and awarded only after an exit check has confirmed that the candidate has returned home.

Does this not make sound social sense to you and your party?

Re-Rochdale scandal: The real culprit of child abuse scandals such as Rochdale is in the national disgrace of outsourcing responsibility away from the public sector to private firms pursuing profit.

Few realise that the majority of children’s homes are now owned by private companies such as Atos, Serco and others, who’ve received many billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to roll a profit at the expense of vulnerable children.

What would your party do about this national scandal?

JOHN HAMILTON, address supplied