SIR – Ian Lyons’s Liberal Democrats (Letters, June 12), are willing partners in a Tory-led coalition that is hitting the ordinary people of cities like Bradford the hardest in response to the global banking crisis.

Bradford has lost £100 million in Government funding under the coalition. Over the last two years, Bradford’s cuts equated to £147 per person, while the 50 least affected Councils, mainly in the affluent South, lost an average of £16.

Now Bradford faces more punishing cuts handed down by George Osborne aided and abetted by the Liberal Democrats.

Far from squandering resources, the Labour Council has done everything it can to protect services by cutting the waste and inefficiency built up during the disastrous ten years in which a Conservative and Lib Dem coalition ran the Council (remember, Mr Lyons?).

But the scale of the cuts means that improving efficiency and reducing back office costs will not be enough, and services are bound to be affected.

If Bradford’s dwindling bunch of Liberal Democrats truly cared about vulnerable people, they would be calling on their party to protect Bradford from further draconian cuts instead of engaging in the immature, disingenuous posturing that has become so typical of them.

Councillor Vanda Greenwood (Labour), Windhill & Wrose Ward, Member Health Overview and Scrutiny, c/o City Hall