ONE can well understand the reluctance of the local Lib Dems to criticise their Labour bed-fellows, but why does their chairman turn on the Town Hall's real opposition party in Blackpool Town Hall to express his anger? (Citizen, Nov 1).

He complains that in spite of his party agreeing to become an appendage of Labour, "(the Conservatives) have ensured that there is no Lib Dem councillor on the committee."

It simply isn't true. The rules which determine members of committees are created by the majority party which, of course, are his new colleagues -- Labour.

While it is natural for him to feel aggrieved at such contemptuous rejection he would do well to direct his anger at his new masters.

The Lib Dem chairman is however right to be very concerned at the Lib Lab pact to operate their latest wheeze of "allowing the public to speak at council meetings."

As all questions have to be first submitted to the new censorship committee -- chaired incidentally by a member who has been the subject of an investigation for alleged wrongdoing -- the whole business is revealed as a cheap Labour sham.

Any questions which are probing and discomforting to the council won't see the light of day. What disgraceful standards the Lib Dems are now embracing in throwing in their lot with ruling councillors?

How fortunate are the people of Blackpool in having a genuine opposition party which refuses to bend its knee to those who have yet to learn the meaning of honesty and democracy!

Peter Roscoe,

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