SIR – I’m sure like myself, Worcester residents are sick and tired of our so called elected councillors, some of whom are a waste of time.

Recent elections put Conservatives in charge. Labour closely behind, then you have a nobody group the Greens holding the whole of Worcester to ransom AGAIN.

People power has been proven to be very powerful, so let’s all get together and have a vote of no confidence in ALL of the elected councillors, demand a new election with totally new nominees.

This silliness has been going on for several years now making Worcester a laughing stock. It’s time Worcester residents put a stop to it.

P Hine

Worcester

Disappointed but grateful

SIR – Of course I was disappointed personally not to have held Battenhall ward for the Conservatives on May 5.

However, I am grateful to those (887) who voted for me and totalling a larger number than when we last contested the ward and won! I am also proud of the voters in Battenhall who turned out in such large numbers (54.6 per cent), far higher than anywhere else.

The democratic process is not effective without volunteers and that applies to all political parties. I thank the many who helped me in my campaign over such a prolonged time.

It was a privilege to be a councillor for Battenhall (2004-2014), cabinet member for five years and Mayor (2011-2012). I shall continue to work with Battenhall city councillor Steve Mackay, county councillor Marc Bayliss and Robin Walker, MP for the benefit of this ward (in which I have lived since 1976) and our city.

Dr David Tibbutt

Battenhall

PM scraping the barrel

SIR – David Cameron is really scraping the barrel over his scaremongering tactics of attempting to get people to vote stay in the EU.

Now he claims that we risk sliding back into war and genocide if we dare leave the EU.

In such a muddled speech, he groaned on about Waterloo, the Spanish Armada, Trafalgar, and the dead of two world wars, but he fails to explain why cutting loose from the EU bureaucracy would jeopardise peace!

If he honestly believes this, then why on earth did he call the referendum in the first place?

He thought his weak attempt to wrestle back powers (which he failed) from the EU would win over the doubters... wrong. It’s only got more thinking out is the only way

GB DIPPER

Leominster

Pulling wool over our eyes

SIR – This is my first-ever (tarra-tarrah) proactive letter on the EU. More seriously, it is necessitated by the misleading economies with the verity being put out recently by leading Brexiteer Bumbling Boris (Johnson).

For instance, he complains about what is described as a ban on some electrical appliances, such as vacuum cleaners. What he omits to mention is that the ban relates to appliances which use too much energy, and is aimed at increasing energy efficiency. Tellingly (but, equally, missing from the BBJ analysis), the new rules were backed by vacuum cleaner manufacturers themselves (who were consulted before their introduction), and our UK government supported them.

Moving swiftly on to bananas, they have always been classified, for international trade, by quality and size, and the European Commision was asked to simplify and standardise a multiplicity of different countries’ different rules. That’s all: nothing is banned, and these grading rules were actually sought by the producers themselves.

That such attempts to pull the wool over our eyes are becoming common in this campaign is deeply depressing, the more so because they are being made by individuals who stand to be rewarded with personal political gain by Brexit. Their campaign is certainly not about any desire to provide accurate and complete information to the voter.

David Barlow

Worcester

Treat animals with respect

SIR – Re: Ridgeway Park Farm near Pershore. The cruel person John Bruce did not get a long enough sentence of keeping no animals for two years. The court should have banned him for life. Everyone who treats animals this way, whether it be a cow or a mouse, should be banned. I was so glad your paper named and shamed this farmer for what he is. Magistrates are too easy on animal cruelty cases.

Every animal has the right to live with a bit of happiness, it’s not asking too much surely. They all have hearts as we do so treat them with love and respect as you would want to be treated. You are a disgrace John Bruce shame on you.

MRS C ROBERTS

Worcester

Barmy Trump as president

SIR – If Donald Trump does become President of the USA, I shall build myself a nuclear bomb proof shelter. Trump is barmy.

GEORGE COWLEY

Worcester