IN his naive attempt to appear trendy, modern and in step with "new" Labour, the chairman of Blackpool's education committee tramples on the personal standards of the overwhelming majority of decent people in the town.

His support for the promotion of homosexuality in our local schools is a gross betrayal of those whom he has been elected to represent.

Prior to the previous government's bringing in Section 28, we had a situation whereby his fellow trendies in Labour-controlled councils were even targeting kiddies as young as seven years.

Those innocents were subject to what is described by the House of Lords as "materials that are depraving and corrupting, upon which public money has been spent, and which is being peddled round very young children in our schools and youth centres." We are fortunate that the House of Lords, as a reflection of the revulsion felt by so many in the country, has crushed the Labour-sponsored motion to remove from the Education Act, the protection of vulnerable children.

It is sad indeed to find Blackpool's Labour Town Hall aligning both the resort's MPS in the promotion of homosexuality in schools.

Our holiday town must be at the lowest point ever in its history. We have social chaos, abuse of power in the town hall, a rates' rise in the offing, enormous debt, growing crime, drugs, the brink of financial bankruptcy and now further degeneracy planned by the town hall. That is moral bankruptcy!

Ah! But a star looms on the horizon: the Local Elections in May!

P. Roscoe,

Bond Street,

Blackpool.

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