THROUGH these columns the Labour leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council publicly asks people in this paper to vote Tory or Lib if they do not want to vote for his lot.

This surely must be a first for a Labour politician.

Councillor Taylor must be running really scared that Labour's vote might collapse altogether in the approaching by election in Mill Hill. If he is to resort to this kind of electioneering.

WALT MEADOWS, Whalley New Road, Blackburn.