IN your article about the county’s first ever police commissioner (‘Lancashire police boss pledges to keep bobbies on the beat’, LT, November 30), the man in question, Clive Grunshaw (pictured), is quoted as saying: “This is part of who I am, however unlike my role as a councillor I do not have to answer to a party whip, meaning I can put the public’s priorities at the forefront.”

I always thought that whatever party a councillor or MP belonged to, they should always put the public’s priorities first.

It goes to show how wrong you can be. But then, I’m only a pleb.

Izanears (via website).