"LIKE a Bombsite" is an apt description of the Labour-neglected inner wards in the town as exposed by The Citizen (May 16).

What those residents see as they look from their windows, or experience as they bravely walk in those areas of the most crime-infested neighbourhoods in the resort cannot be denied. It's plain for all to see.

Those residents are surrounded by filth, squalor and a level of street hygiene which would shame a backward country in Africa. It should be noted, however, that the majority of the electorate in those Labour-abandoned zones have exercised their democratic right to choose the very conditions in which they are now condemned. In fact, our ruling-councillors have greatly raised their own monetary allowances, so the very quality of life in the bombsite areas has plummeted.

The level of spending in the grotty wards of Blackpool is determined by the town hall designation of those residents as "Core Labour of the town" (shortened to CLOTTs). What this means is that when financial allocation to the wards is determined by our Labour/Lib-Dem council, those at the front of the queue are those whose votes are not assured.

As the majority of the active electorate in the bombsite wards are CLOTTs, there is no point at all in giving them their deserved level of cash. It can in fact be spent on silly so-called works of art on the Prom. No matter how badly they're treated, they can be relied on to meekly accept their second-class status.

Like submissive hounds which scamper to an uncaring master, they can be relied on to support the system which grinds them down more and more.

Those who avoid the ballot-box -- that silent majority -- give their consent to the CLOTTs to determine the quality of life for all in their respective neighbourhoods. Each member of the electorate is entitled to vote by post. There is no excuse at all for that silent majority to simply complain to each other and not to use the power vested in them at election time to bring about change.

P Roscoe, address supplied.