MAY I respond to a letter from Colin Davidovitz in which he says that Cllr Brain Dash is only letter writing about various matters in the press, because he has a seat to protect in the forthcoming elections. That is a rather ridiculous statement. Many others are also hoping to hang onto their seats, or new candidates will be trying hard to gain one and that will of course include the Conservatives.

The Liberal Democrats have everything to win while the Conservatives have to lose., including the council leader who is becoming a dictator. The same has happened on the New Forest District Council, we have a leader who is in conflict with the Park Authority and yet is also the deputy leader of that! It makes no sense, rather like having the UKIP in the European Parliament, they are not there to assist us, they are there to undermine all the efforts of those who want it to work.

You have Conservative influence over the New Forest Show which received sponsorship from Ken Thornber using taxpayers money.

People who have been here for generations don’t get a look in and are told how to live our lives by those who are in comparison, outsiders.

I have in the past stood as a Council candidate, but people here will vote for the Party not so much for the person and I have to say it, that also is true at general elections. It may surprise some readers, but perhaps only 10 per cent of my letters ever see the light of day.

I will have to wait and see if this one is used.

In the meantime, I ask readers to please vote at all elections. If you want change, you are the people to do it.

You dictate, not them. In fact put up posters, hand out leaflets, get involved.

Richard Grant, Burley.