TONY Gray (Letters, January 4) says that those backing Southampton City Council's laser proposal have lost the plot.

Presumably, therefore, he will be rather cross with his fellow Liberal Democrat letter writer, David Harrison, who wrote in support of the project only two days earlier.

But then Liberals invariably put out contradictory messages and generally tie themselves up in knots.

Their recent contributions on this subject are further evidence of this in case anyone were in any doubt.

COLIN SMITH, Totton branch, New Forest East Conservatives.