IN REPLY to Coun Ron O'Keefe (LT, June 14) "Darreners should feel ashamed."

I would like to say that his comments were a bit over the top.

It was pathetic for a councillor to say those things about ratepayers who pay his and other allowances.

I wonder what the ratepayers of Darwen think of this?

Please remember it was your Labour Party that started all this in the first place.

You have been in control for 24 years, so it must have been your party that wanted to put the new Academy on Redearth Triangle without a back-up plan if people objected to it, and you also decided about the Leisure Centre, etc.

HAMISH McLEAN, Brighton Terrace, Darwen