I would like to point out to Mr Cass (last week's letters) that I am actually an Independent Councillor rather than MBI although I am aligned to that group for administrative purposes.

I can further inform Mr Cass that the MBI group on the City Council does not have a policy on Latin America let alone Venezuela.

It may seem hard to believe for those who prefer to emotively label their opponents right-wing, fascist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic or worse that some people can actually think for themselves and express individual thoughts and opinions.

But then again anybody who reads the Guardian/Independent and takes it as gospel then irrationally accuses somebody of being 'to the right of Hitler and left of Bush' probably finds that a difficult concept.

After all he will have been programmed out of free thought by the Guardian.

Cllr Gregg Beaman

Carnforth

Independent