REGARDING your report headlined 'Campaign starts now to oust BNP' (LET, May 7), someone should tell Blackburn with Darwen Council leader Bill Taylor that it is the voters who decide, who is ousted and who is voted in.

And talking of voting, what about the elections that never were? Everyone I have spoken to said they wanted to vote. Many people feel they have been deprived this year of exercising their democratic right.

I knew about the proposed boundary changes due to be implemented next year, which I feel was one of the excuses to postpone the local elections in Blackburn and Darwen, but many people did not and that doesn't say much for the council's efforts to communicate with voters on such an important event as this.

Did the council ever think to consult the public before it cancelled the elections? No, they did not.

The excuse that the councillors would only get 12 months in their posts is not a valid reason for not having the elections.

Many people think that the real reason we didn't get our local elections this year was because the Labour Group was afraid that they would get a real pasting at the polls.

EDDIE DUXBURY, Arthur Way, Blackburn.