Eastleigh borough councillors who seem so keen on spending taxpayers’ money on the Rose Bowl should bear in mind if it goes pear-shaped they can be personally surcharged.

If I lived in Eastleigh I would be looking to get rid of these spendthrifts who have already wasted an alleged £1.2m and are thinking of £30m to build a hotel in which there is no commercial developer interested.

Fawley Parish Council is now much better off since the Conservatives gave the boot to the Lib Dem majority at the last election, and we will not be selling a popular children’s play area to fund some fantasy idea.

CLLR PHILLIP PEARCE-SMITH MBE, Holbury.