AT the time of writing I have in front of me a copy of the so-called racist leaflet which seems to be causing leader of the Labour group on Hyndburn Council, Ian Ormerod and Hyndburn MP Greg Pope much consternation (LET, June 6).

They are clutching at straws. This leaflet only repeated what had appeared in every national newspaper and media outlet.

The fact of the matter is that after 13 disastrous years of Labour in Hyndburn, they have now become the political outcasts and are running around like headless chickesn, trying to gain a foothold on the long slippery slope to oblivion and they are not having much success.

JOHN FARRER, Mallard Place, Oswaldtwistle.