In the dark

I read your report "New socialist party to fight general election" (14 January) with some interest. My interest quickly turned to indignation, however, as I realised that neither Bob Crow nor anyone else had been in touch with the Scottish Socialist Party about this London-based initiative to unite socialist groups in Scotland – no letter, no e-mail, no text message, no phone call, let alone the courtesy of an invitation to meetings held "last week in London" or "in G

Such an attitude hardly bodes well for the comradely and mutually respectful relationship required. Readers will be forced to question the seriousness of such a proposal when the biggest and fastest-growing socialist party in Scotland is excluded in this way.

I'm surely not the only person who thinks we need another socialist party like we need a hole in the head.