SIR – Councillor Greenwood (Letters, June 28), really should be very careful in boasting about what Council services (creating jobs, keeping PCSOs and much more) that the Labour group is maintaining despite the cuts imposed by central Government. Labour didn’t need the money that was cut from the budget did it, Vanda?
You’ve heard it from the horse’s mouth, readers. The Labour group needed the financial discipline imposed by Whitehall to become so very efficient!
Having served as a councillor for four years I wasn’t aware I was in coalition with the Tories. I don’t remember Lib-Dems sitting on the executive or Council ‘government’, though D Ward may have done for a short time many years ago. It just is not true.
The Coalition the most right-wing Government? You are old enough to remember the Thatcherites, Vanda: the poll tax – all the Tory policies embraced by New Labour in 1997 despite people crying out for a change?
At least we saw public utilities restored to public ownership under Labour. The Governments of France, Singapore, Kuwait...
Trust Labour? There lies madness...
John Hall, Pennithorne Avenue, Baildon
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