SIR - I am not a supporter of the BNP but see nothing wrong in Councillor Paul Cromie giving a £5 note to each of the 200 pensioners who live in sheltered housing in his ward (T&A, January 8).
He has already made a donation of £500 to Holy Trinity Church in Queensbury and a pledge of £50 a month to the church fund. Nothing was said about that and indeed it would probably never have become public knowledge were it not that someone reported him to Bradford Council for the Christmas gift to the pensioners, suggesting that he could be in breach of the Councillors' Code of Conduct.
Apparently Coun Cromie gave the money from his councillor's allowance but in any case a Bradford Council legal services spokesman said: "There is no requirement in the member code to declare donations and there is no register, public or private, of donations."
If anyone thinks that £5 is an incentive to secure votes for personal gain then they underestimate the intelligence of the electorate.
David Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford
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