Pro-Labour letters distort the reality

Letter: The number of people writing into the Star to say how good Labour are and how bad the Tories were . . . honestly, you'd think Labour were in trouble at the polls or something.

Oh dear.

The latest attempt to distort reality into a pro-Labour sentiment, that I have noticed, comes from Councillor Sahota, who informs us that he voted against imposing a collection tax on large items of rubbish whilst the evil Tories pushed it through.

He probably did, I haven't checked, bully for him.

However, the Conservative administration he condemns for this inherited a budget that had been penny pinched in order to return low council tax bills prior to an election.

And they are also having to deal with year-on-year reductions in grants from the central Labour government.

Money doesn't grow on trees, so in order to provide an acceptable level of service in these over-taxed times the Conservative administration is having to bite the bullet and find the money, all whilst having to adapt to EU imposed and Labour ratified regulations on waste disposal.

It is Gordon "I'm so good at figures" Brown who we must blame for forcing the Conservatives' hands. And, let's not forget, failing to prepare our economy for a rainy day.

And for introducing a ridiculous and unsustainable "tax and spend" economy that punishes the worker at the expense of the rich and/or feckless.

Andrew Graves, Randlay