I ALWAYS know when my Labour Party colleagues on the city council start electioneering through the letters' page of the Evening News.

First, my head whirls from the spin they generate and then I get a drowning feeling from the ocean of misinformation they employ.

Paul Denham (You Say, Thursday, December 9) and Bob Peachey (December 10) do nothing to alleviate these bleak feelings.

For example, I must tell Paul that I do not know a single city councillor from any party who has not complained to our bus company about the poor service it is providing.

However most of us would not attempt to take the moral high ground by confusing regulation, which adds costs without adding value, with dictation, which has always been illegal. Bob's letter is worse - he uses numbers selectively, thus figures taken from an instant in the council year are made to appear the average for the whole year.

He knows better than this but then the truth should never get in the way of a spun fact.

Both the above examples are used to make petty party-political points. Where are the useful suggestions? I do not believe that this is how Local Government should or needs to be conducted. I am disappointed that they believe it is.

I am amazed that he dares to use the short list of the lowest priorities, from a longer list of priorities that the Administration is and continues to finance, as if they are to become cuts.

He has no excuse for this scare-mongering because he knows the list he uses was formulated not just by the Cabinet but also by the public and back-bench councillors following consultation.

Equally, as a serving councillor, he will have the opportunity at various times to argue for what he believes should be enhanced in the Budget.

We all know that the Budget is a balance between what we would like for the people of Worcester balanced against what we can responsibly afford.

Let us hear him argue his case in full council. That's why he is there.

COUNCILLOR BARRY MACKENZIE-WILLIAMS,

Worcester.