I'VE been following the raging debate regarding the proposed boundary changes with great interest and growing incredulity.

I think it beggars belief how Blackburn with Darwen Axis Council have the cheek to suggest expanding the boundaries of the Greater Blackburn Reich when they haven't made a good job of what they have so far.

It seems to me that Sir Bill Taylor and his gruppenfuhrers in the town hall are hell bent on pushing through this policy of lebensraum and capturing the peaceful satellite communities in the Sudetenland... sorry, the Ribble Valley and Hyndburn.

What have those poor souls done to warrant this unwelcome invasion from Big Brother Blackburn?

What can Blackburn offer these areas that their existing councils fail to provide? A half-hearted recycling policy? Irregular bin collections? Ill-informed councillors spouting garbled nonsense at every opportunity? Ugly sculptures? Badly-thought one-way systems?

I'm not sure some scrap metal like the junk on Church Street would look so good outside Mellor's charming church.

I also shudder to think which area will be next on the hit list to hear the jackbooted march of the Blackburn storm-troopers and feel the full force of Herr Taylor's co-ordinated blitzkrieg!

Will he and his heartless henchmen go for a soft target like Rossendale, or will be have guts to take on neighbouring super powers Bolton or Preston? Who knows, maybe Ramsbottom will be Bill Taylor's Stalingrad!

So I say hats off to the good people of Mellor and Wilpshire for putting up some resistance to the greedy gauleiters of Blackburn Town Hall and good luck to Emma Dickinson and her BOB (Back Off Blackburn) Campaign.

B G CURRY, Quebec Road, Lammack, Blackburn.