SIR – Former Tory Councillor Colin McPhee (T&A March 2), states that the Council’s Conservatives were the only main party (ie besides the BNP), to vote against the Budget and cuts.

Why vote against? Because their amendment wasn’t accepted.

What did that concern? A mere £2 to 3m of cuts in limited areas – eg not expecting country dwellers to take rubbish to the nearest public highway, but instead paying for smaller refuse vehicles to travel narrow tracks at greater expense.

So nothing major then? Not even a significant part of the £47m or so of cuts. They’re just playing politics.

The fact is the Tories did not oppose the vast majority of cuts, and none in major areas such as adult and children’s services As for my not wanting Wrose Library to close, none of us do. My greatest concern is to preserve library facilities in Wrose and I have surveyed library users with this in mind, asking what support exists for using a mobile library until a better solution is found.

We’d also consider putting facilities into another building. In the long term, I hope Wrose can have better library facilities. Not all is lost.

Coun John Watmough, Lib Dem Windhill and Wrose, Powell Road, Bingley